Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Ore Ogambi.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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prove that it doesn't. Security services remain unconvinced and now the battle between church

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tournament to even greater heights. But first.

People are continuing to flee cartoon, Sudan's capital, where violence has now entered its second week.

Day after day has been marked by the rattle of small arms, the deep boom of air strikes and the chance of

militiamen. The fighting is the culmination of a bitter power struggle between two factions of

the military leadership. On one side is Sudan's de facto leader, General Abdul Fata Al-Brahman,

who controls the army. On the other is Muhammad Hamdan Daghalo, better known as Hamiddi.

He commands the paramilitary rapid support forces, a faction that grew out of the notorious

Jangerweed militia, which has been accused of genocide or acts in Dalfur. This morning,

the EU's top diplomat, Josep Burel, warned that if Sudan implodes, it would send shock waves

through the whole of Africa. The international humidity message is the same. You have to stop the war,

silence the guns and start talking and looking for a political solution because there is not the

military solution. But neither side appears willing to back down.

Each day, Sudan's rival forces have been battling it out in the heart of the capital cartoon.

Tom Gardner is the economist's East Africa correspondent. In the midst of escalating violence, foreign

citizens have been getting out of the country. As is so often the case, civilians have been suffering

the most. Hundreds have been killed already. Many more injured. A humanitarian disaster

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