After more than 1,000 days of fighting, Sudan’s civil war looks to be entering a new and even more deadly chapter. This escalation could fully erase the borders that have nominally contained this conflict and unleash new violence across the wider Horn of Africa region and beyond. Sudan is already de facto partitioned between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which split the country between west and east, respectively. However, with the conflict now