How RSF’s Seizure of Heglig Oil Field Threatens the Two Sudans

Dec 10, 2025 | John Bith Aliap
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The Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) capture of the Heglig oil field represents one of the most consequential moments in the Sudanese conflict since the fall of Khartoum. It is not merely a battlefield victory; it is a seismic shift that strikes at the economic lifelines of both Sudan and South Sudan and threatens to pull the wider region into deeper instability.