As the people of Sudan continue to experience conflict and violence, the role played by international financial institutions is often ignored. Decades of IMF-imposed austerity policies and cuts on spending played a huge role in the deterioration of living conditions in the country Sudan is experiencing its fourth week of conflict between two military factions,…
The US remains the most influential foreign actor in this conflict, which it was responsible for sparking but is now trying to stop since the military-strategic dynamics shifted against its interests. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) both dispatched representatives to Jeddah for talks on Saturday that Al Jazeera reported…
The potential outbreak of a civil war sparked by a factional fight within Sudan’s military government poses a destabilization threat beyond the nation’s borders – into Africa, West Asia, and the emerging multipolar order. This suits the west just fine. The story of Sudan is one of contrasts and contradictions. It is a country with tremendous…
These limited hangouts are meant to justify more American meddling in Sudan on the pretexts of making amends for the prior policy that the New York Times and the Washington Post both argued was responsible for this crisis in parallel with preventing the “protracted” conflict that the US’ Director of National Intelligence just predicted will…
How do you turn a war criminal, whose militias terrorised Darfur by ramming men with pickup trucks and raping women in the name of jihad, into a hero of the Sudanese revolution? Well, you need money. The British PR agency whose pitch lies in front of me as I write this, put their “indicative fees” at…
Since Sudan’s crisis erupted last month, concerns about state collapse and civil war have been valid. Unfortunately, with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of Sudan’s national army and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (a.k.a. Hemedti) of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) viewing this conflict as existential, it is not easy to imagine a de-escalation at any point soon….
