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MENA politics is fluid. Parties merge, split, reform; leaders are elected, dismissed, or killed; regimes fall. The party and politician pages capture the dataset as it stands now; Pulse captures the movement — what just happened, what's under way, what's rumored but not yet formal. Each event carries a confidence rating and the same per-field source citations as every other Tayyar entity.
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Older confirmed events on file. The lens reaches back to political shifts that still shape today's positions.
- April 15, 2023
Sudanese civil war begins
Open warfare broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (led by Sovereignty Council chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) and the Rapid Support Forces (led by Hemedti) on 2023-04-15. The war has displaced over 10 million Sudanese and shows no signs of resolution.
- April 15, 2023
Sudan: Civil war breaks out between SAF and RSF
Two years after they jointly overthrew the civilian transitional government, the Sudanese Armed Forces under Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces under Hemedti turned on each other. Fighting started in Khartoum and Merowe air base and spread within days to most major cities. By 2026, it had become the world's largest displacement crisis and largest hunger emergency; the RSF held much of Darfur, the SAF held the east and north, and the country had effectively partitioned.
- October 25, 2021
Sudanese 2021 coup
Generals Burhan and Hemedti seized full control of the Sudanese transitional government on 2021-10-25, dissolving the civilian-led cabinet that had been in power since the 2019 overthrow of Bashir. Set the conditions for the 2023 fallout between the two men into civil war.
- April 11, 2019
Omar al-Bashir overthrown
A military coup overthrew Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on 2019-04-11 after months of mass protests. Initially seen as a democratic opening, the transition was derailed by the October 2021 al-Burhan coup and the 2023 outbreak of war with the RSF.
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