Washington-based Middle East and Africa analysis

Contextualises the banknotes within the RSF's broader state-building project: its Tasis shadow authority now has a central bank head, a foreign ministry, and a court system; notes the Sudanese pound has collapsed from under 600 per US dollar before the war to over 5,000, creating a liquidity vacuum in Darfur that the RSF is filling with its own monetary instrument.

“Tasis parallel structures include a shadow central bank; new notes are the RSF's first step toward a separate monetary system.”