Stakes in Sudan’s War Include Russian Gold, Nile Dam, Key Shipping Lane

Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group offers weapons, Egypt provides jets, pilots to rival generals in deadly conflict

Green rings at a Nile-irrigated alfalfa farm dot the arid landscape near Shendi, Sudan. Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin for The Wall Street Journal

The fate of some of Africa’s most important strategic resources is hanging in the balance as Sudan’s top two generals vie for supremacy, from the waters of the Nile and access to crucial shipping lanes to some of the continent’s largest gold mines.

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