Some experts say China’s scaling back of financial support for infrastructure construction in Africa opens the door for the United States and Western Europe to fill the void, if they want. The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling for power in Sudan’s civil war, took a step toward forming a breakaway government on Tuesday when it hosted a lavish political event in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Fourteen-year-old Gesma fled Sudan's Darfur region after armed militias killed her parents and brother, leaving her to care for her younger siblings in a Chad refugee camp.