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Khartoum before this week's fighting, in which hundreds of lives have been lost (Photo: Christopher Michel)

Analysis

Russia poised to exploit Sudan coup as EU looks on

The violent chaos in Sudan might well end with Russia building a strategic naval base there, as warlords court foreign sponsors, experts say.

"They [Russia] already have a base in Syria very close by and I don't doubt they'll build this one very soon," Joana de Deus Pereira, a Russia specialist at British defence think-tank the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), told EUobserver.

She spoke amid ongoing clashes in Khartoum on Wednesday (19 April), which claimed hundreds of l...

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