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

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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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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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