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My understanding is limited but from my current knowledge (which might be completely wrong):
The RSF is compromised of an Arab force backed by the UAE who are pretty racist and want to install an Arab superiority regime and are mass raping + murdering black people. They are 100% committing a Genocide.
The current Sudanese military (SAF) is backed by Iran (and maybe others). SAF also commit a lot of war crimes but seem to be more financially motivated. SAF seems more into the civil war thing than Genocide, but SAF soldiers are also raping and murdering civilians.
Both parties are bad but the RSF is super bad.
UAE leaders are definitely not backing the RSF for racist purposes, the sudanese army is equally arabic. They are backing the RSF atrocities and destabilizing the region, yielding resources in exchange from Sudan gold mines. They're also known for being a proxy for USA and Israel executing their plans in the region.
I think Iran joined in later by sending some drones, but their involvement seems a lot less than the UAE.
The UAE like Saudi Arabia hosts many American military bases and gets American weapons. But I'm still not sure if this is an American proxy war through the UAE or the UAE doing this by themselves.
The UAE does have a lot of sketchy stuff going on though they're looking a bit like a convenient black sheep: American mercenaries hired by UAE to kill in Yemen - BBC World Service Documentaries
Iran provides some support to SAF likely because Sudan is next to the Red Sea and they don't want Sudan to fall under control of a Western aligned regime.
Once again my knowledge of this conflict might be completely off this is just random stuff I picked up. Don't take anything in this comment as the truth.