Sudan descends into chaos with feuding generals

By Abdul Masih —

A feud between generals in Sudan has killed 40,000+ and forced 14M to flee, creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis at present, but the conflagration gets eclipsed by the news cycle obsessed with Gaza, Iran and Ukraine.

“Fifty million people live here, 25 million are in some sort of humanitarian need,” says Elizabeth Hoffman of the One Campaign. “But because of everything else going on in the world, Sudan often falls below the headlines and feels like a forgotten crisis.”

Formerly allies, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) of the Rapid Support Forces have divided the nation into East and West with massacres and genocide going on.

Both leaders became candidates for power when former dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019 in the 90%-Muslim country just south of Egypt.

The Rapid Support Forces, descended from janjaweed militias, seized the gold mines of the Darfur in the west and got some support of the Russian Wagner forces (for the gold). RSF conquered the most of the capitol, Khartoum, at the outbreak of the war in April 2023. Two years of SAF fighting dislodged them and freed the Nile River city.

Most of the international community is aligned with the SAF but with caveats because it’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked.

The United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia are reportedly siding with RSF because it’s more anti-Islamist. The United States and United Nations have picked neither side. The RSF is more often accused of genocide.

Refugees have poured over borders into South Sudan, Libya, Chad. Many more are simply Internally Displaced Persons, who make home an under-equipped camps getting one meal a day and sharing few bathrooms among thousands.

Sources: CBN, others.