A senior commander of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Maj. Gen. al-Nour Ahmed Adam, has defected to the national army, with military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan publicly welcoming him in Sudan's Northern province near the Egyptian border. Adam, known as al-Qubba, reportedly switched sides after a dispute with RSF leadership over his exclusion from command of North Darfur province following the RSF's capture of el-Fasher — the military's last stronghold in the region. The defection is one of the most significant since Sudan's civil war began in April 2023, a conflict that has killed at least 59,000 people and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.