Why focus only on American arms dealers? This conflict has seen Turkish, Iranian and Chinese weaponry too.The World's Police™ could stop it if they wanted. All this talk of the Quad, getting partners on board, asking other nations not to let their territories to be used to transport weapons, drones, etc, is just delaying tactics. American arms dealers will be coining it in. The same dealers who host $5,000 a plate fundraisers for senators and congressmen and women.
It's all a bit "tut tut, isn't it terrible?"
The World's Police™ could stop it if they wanted. All this talk of the Quad, getting partners on board, asking other nations not to let their territories to be used to transport weapons, drones, etc, is just delaying tactics. American arms dealers will be coining it in. The same dealers who host $5,000 a plate fundraisers for senators and congressmen and women.
It's all a bit "tut tut, isn't it terrible?"
That's actually a pretty good conversation for a press conference. (Maybe my expectations of anything of the current US administration are that low?) And it's probably the right way forward to back the Sudan government. Not that they're good guys, but 'not the RSF' seems like a good start to anything. I guess for this sort of international initiative, you just have to hope they find a way to get the UAE on their side...?
UAE wouldn't be too happy with this?
The way this is now shaping up is that Egypt has formed an alliance with Eritrea, Ethiopia’s rival, and Somalia, also Ethiopia’s rival. And that alliance is supportive of the SAF. And, in opposition to that, the R.S.F. in Sudan has forged a relationship very much underpinned by the U.A.E. and Ethiopia. The concern now isn’t just what’s going to happen with the Nile’s water and the conflicts around that; it’s what happens if Ethiopia does go to war with Eritrea.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-the-conflict-in-sudan-became-a-humanitarian-catastropheOne is precious metals such as gold, but also other metals, and the U.A.E. is a global gold market; two is land, and the U.A.E. is buying a lot of land in East Africa, in Sudan, in the Horn of Africa; three is oil, which of course they have, as does Saudi Arabia; four is strategic real estate, and in this case the U.A.E. has an advantage because it has two major companies that buy a lot of ports; and then, lastly, data and now A.I. The U.A.E. may eventually be one of the largest data centers and A.I. hubs in the world.
An investigation by the FRANCE 24 Observers team reveals how chlorine gas was used as a weapon in the ongoing civil war in Sudan. All evidence suggests the Sudanese army used chlorine to recapture a strategic refinery from the Rapid Support Forces militia.
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-show...st-proof-use-chemical-weapons-sudan-civil-warOur investigation shows that the chlorine was exported to Sudan by Chemtrade International Corporation, an Indian company. They said it was intended exclusively for water treatment purposes, a common civilian use.
The Sudanese regime’s eagerness to strike a deal with Moscow reflects its deteriorating position on that battlefield.
The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...ity-el-fasher-slaughterhouse-satellite-imagesWhile the final death toll of the massacre remains unclear, British MPs have been briefed that at least 60,000 have been murdered in El Fasher.
That is certainly and rightly the case, but Rubio is not a stupid or bad politician. His views are definitely often questionable, but he is capable. Unfortunately, he lacks a backbone.That's actually a pretty good conversation for a press conference. (Maybe my expectations of anything of the current US administration are that low?) And it's probably the right way forward to back the Sudan government. Not that they're good guys, but 'not the RSF' seems like a good start to anything. I guess for this sort of international initiative, you just have to hope they find a way to get the UAE on their side...?
More than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group earlier this year on the largest displacement camp in western Sudan, the U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report released Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-rsf-zamzam-un-report-c7b1a81d4f70dc3e3f6b27c86278ea76RSF stormed Zamzam camp in April as part of its siege of the city of el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province.
In the attack, hundreds of people were summarily executed, according to the report. People were killed in house-to-house raids and the main market, as well as in schools and health facilities. The report detailed patterns of sexual violence, “including rape and gang rape, and sexual slavery
International aid staff who accessed Sudan's al-Fashir for the first time since its takeover by a paramilitary force found the city largely deserted, with a few people sheltering in buildings or under plastic sheets, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
U.N. officials say several thousand civilians were killed in the RSF takeover of el-Fasher, the Sudanese army’s only remaining stronghold in the Darfur. Only 40% of the city’s 260,000 residents managed to flee the onslaught alive, thousands of whom were wounded, the officials said. The fate of the rest remains unknown.
Sudan has accused Ethiopia of allowing drones to be launched from its territory into Sudan to carry out attacks in February and March, the first time it has directly accused its powerful neighbour of involvement in the three-year civil war.
https://www.reuters.com/business/me...st-time-involvement-its-civil-war-2026-03-03/The Sudanese foreign ministry statement, released late on Monday, is the latest sign that one of the world's deadliest conflicts between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is drawing in regional powers from Africa and beyond.
El Obeid, the capital of the North Kordofan state, is currently under SAF control, but the city has faced “siege-like conditions” for 18 months, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on 3 July. The situation in El Obeid could deteriorate even further, as attacks on critical infrastructure such as power stations have caused blackouts, disrupted water supplies and hampered hospitals’ ability to operate.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/07/1167897The mission noted that the UN repeatedly warned about the risk of atrocities in El Fasher before the city fell, but that those warnings were not heeded. Now, investigators are raising the alarm over El Obeid to encourage prompt action to prevent further casualties. “At a moment when serious concerns are being raised about the risks facing civilians in El Obeid, the findings from El Fasher underscore the need for urgent protection measures before more lives are lost,” expert mission member Joy Ngozi Ezeilo said.
