After a year of rising middle powers using Sudan as their blood soaked playground, the country is barrelling down the road to the worst famine anyone alive has ever seen
Media mentions – Sudan
Ameer Chughtai and Theodore Murphy on mediation efforts in Sudan
This view was echoed by Theodore Murphy, Africa expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations
It is complicated for outside actors to conceive a mediation process where they support one of the two sides, or to restore the power-sharing agreement that was in place between the two
If things in Sudan drag on, Haftar and his allies could get involved. This could change the balance of power and have ripple effects on the Libyan conflict
Sudan is surrounded by countries that all have their own national interest in the outcome of this war. Sooner or later, they will be drawn into this conflict like into a black hole
They did not realise that the new agreement crossed the red lines of Burhan’s regular forces
I don’t think it’s useful to look at this as just a Russia story
The EU tries to stabilise things and mediate. The Russians come in with a proposal to back one party in any given conflict, usually autocratic ones
Their relative equal power and their ambition for total domination have doomed all negotiations since the transition […]. The problem is not the negotiations, but the lack of political will