In mid-March, while Sudan's main paramilitary group collapsed in the last positions they had been able to hold in the capital.In Khartoum, its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, declared that they would not give in and would expand the conflict. Days later, his brother, Abdelrahim Dagalo, who is increasingly acting as the group's de facto commander, issued a similar warning, threatening to extend the war to the north and east of the country, areas that until then had remained relatively isolated.