Sudan’s army chief orders banks to freeze accounts belonging to rivals

General Abdel Fattah Burhan has frozen the bank accounts of rival paramilitary forces (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Sudan’s military chief has ordered the freezing of all bank accounts belonging to a rival paramilitary force – the latest step in a fight for control of the resource-rich nation.

The two sides have battled for weeks across Sudan, pushing the troubled country to the brink of all-out war.