Politico Says War in Sudan Entered a “Grim Turn”

Sudanhorizon – Mohamed Osman Adam
The newspaper “Politico”, the godfather of the American press specialized in national security affairs, to be matched only by the newspaper “The New York Times”, has painted a picture that lacks any glimmer of hope about an external intervention that puts an end to the ongoing war in Sudan, a war fueled and armed by external forces, so that the newspaper said that the war in Sudan has become a quagmire – yes that is the term it used – indulge in it many external forces, from the neighborhood and non-neighborhood, filling or arming one of the parties and recommending fires that almost engulf the region.
Sudan is fragmented so that it becomes a fertile haven for terrorist movements that take over the region and the region as a whole, and then it is difficult to stich the wound, as we say.
The article was entitled: “Sudan’s war takes a grimp turn.” The national security newspaper published on Thursday by Robbie Grammer and Eric Basile Emile. The newspaper gives a picture telling the reader that what is going on in the Sudan has become like “electronic games on social media”
If you own a laptop and widely available commercial satellite imagery, you can see what is happening in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular, but the paper warns you that what you see is a “war crime raging before your eyes right now.” ”
In Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia group, have begun burning a huge camp for displaced people that may roughly be demographically-wise, the population of Washington,” it goes on in what represents a dramatic escalation in the country’s ongoing civil war.
The newspaper says it has spoken to seven current and former Western officials and humanitarian aid workers working in Sudan, some of whom described the RSF’s movements as continued massacre and all stressed that the international community has done little to try to end them.
Sudan’s civil war, which enters its third year this week, shows no signs of slowing down and therefore stopping and could have far-reaching repercussions on international security. It described the war in Sudan as “becoming a quagmire for foreign powers flooding the country with weapons in an attempt to win over the country.”
Officials and aid workers warn that the ongoing conflict in Sudan “could lead to the total collapse of Sudan that could lead to decades of chronic instability and Sudan becoming a breeding ground for extremist groups.”
The Trump administration has yet to publicly indicate whether it will do anything to stop the massacre, except for State Department comments condemning the RSF attack.
A major test of U.S. leadership role in Sudan, if any, is possible and likely to come soon, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to visit Africa, including stops in Ethiopia and Kenya, in the coming weeks.
“But so far, the Trump administration has little interest in dealing with Africa, as Nahal Tusi, one of the paper’s writers, wrote today in the compass column.
With regard to the Sudan, the absence of any international pressure to end the conflict is meaningful. The RSF is leading a week-long assault on the Zamzam refugee camp, home to an estimated one million people. Yale Humanitarian Laboratory Documents RSF’s Efforts to Systematically Destroy Camp
The Yale Humanitarian Laboratory documents the RSF’s efforts to systematically destroy the camp through commercial satellite imagery. The destruction of these camps is a violation of international humanitarian law.
On the other hand, a conference held this week in London aimed at reviving efforts to end the war in Sudan ended in a complete impasse, underscoring the inability of the international community’s response to the war.
In recent days, some 400,000 people have fled the Zamzam camp and at least 300 people have been killed, including ten international aid workers, according to U.N. data.
The RSF committed atrocities including mass murder and rape of civilians when they took control of other parts of Sudan, as Human Rights Watch documented last year.
Officials and aid workers say the RSF is doing the same in Zamzam now. One aid worker said: “The killing continues, and this could be another case of genocide unfolding in real time as the world stands idly by.

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