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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday warned that the Sudanese people were living a “nightmare” of hunger, disease, and ethnic violence amid the world's largest displacement crisis. Guterres, however, also said that the conditions were not right yet to deploy a UN force.

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Guterres sought "decisive action" by ally-turned-rival generals Abdel-Fattah al Burhan, heading the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end the violence. He said 18 months into the war, 25M people now need humanitarian aid.

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The UN has reported that since fighting erupted between the army (SAF) and the paramilitary RSF in April 2023, at least 12,260 people having died and over 33K injured. Mass killings and sexual violence are reportedly ravaging the country, leaving the people distraught.

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The war has also displaced over 11M people, triggering a devastating humanitarian and health crisis. Some 3M of those displaced have reportedly fled to neighbouring countries. Guterrer said that, in North Darfur, up to 750K were facing “catastrophic food insecurity” and famine.

On Oct. 25 alone, the RSF reportedly killed at least 124 people in a village in Sudan's El Gezira State — one of the deadliest incidents in the war. The US, on the other hand, has blamed the Sudanese authorities of undermining, intimidating, and targeting humanitarian officials.

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In January, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan suggested that both warring sides may be committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide in Darfur. Sudan’s UN Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss has blamed "regional and international players" for the violence.

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The RSF's actions in Gezira state are a desperate response to battlefield losses around Khartoum. They're targeting civilians, particularly the Shukriya tribal group, in acts of atrocity violence rather than engaging in a counter-offensive against the Sudanese Armed Forces. The global silence on these atrocities may lead to a gross underestimation of the death toll.

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The situation in Sudan is a complex conflict with both sides fighting for control of the country. The defection of a key RSF commander to government forces suggests internal divisions within the paramilitary group. The Sudanese army's strategy of "choking out" RSF forces in key cities may be yielding results, potentially shifting the balance of power in the ongoing war.

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As Sudan burns, a cynical game of international chess unfolds. The UAE funnels weapons to the RSF while Egypt and Saudi Arabia back the opposing SAF. Russia plays both sides opportunistically, even as arms from China, Turkey, Iran, and Serbia flood the battlefield. Meanwhile, the same neighbors arming the conflict turn away desperate refugees. The UN's humanitarian efforts remain critically underfunded while the international community's indifference.

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The unspeakable tragedy of Sudan is the suffering of its children. Nearly 5M young ones are on the run, while countless others waste away from hunger. In crowded refugee camps, children cry through the night from empty stomachs. Once-ambitious students who nurtured dreams now sit idle, their education stolen. Each day brings new horrors: child soldiers, sexual violence, and the crushing weight of trauma. A generation stands at the precipice, their childhood shattered by adult conflicts they never chose.

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There is a 45.28% chance that the RSF will come out as the victor in the Sudanese civil war, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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