Sudanese political and civil society groups meet in a bid to end war

Sudanese political and civil society groups met on Saturday in Egypt to discuss ways to end the war engulfing Sudan.

The warring parties, however, didn’t take part in the Egypt-sponsored conference.

Sudan descended into chaos in April last year when simmering tensions between the country’s military and a notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum and elsewhere in the…