US Soft Intervention in One of The World’s Hardest Conflicts

The civil war in Sudan has produced mass displacement, famine, tales of systematic rape and ethnic killing.  The numbers suggest the scale of suffering: 10 million displaced, 25.6 million facing acute hunger, and casualty counts exceeding 20,000 killed and 33,000 injured. The civil war represents more than a domestic tragedy.  It has become a battleground for global and regional powers, each advancing their own agendas at the expense of the Sudanese people.  Central to the conflict is a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which stems from the former Islamist regime of Omar al-Bashir, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the modern successor of militias responsible for atrocities in Darfur (currently engaging in fighting the Houthis in Yemen).