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Sudan: The War the World Chose to Forget - allAfrica.com Three years into Sudan's civil war, the world has largely looked away. Not because the suffering has diminished. Not because peace is near. Not because the humanitarian catastrophe has been solved. The world has simply moved on. Today, Sudan is arguably home to the largest humanitarian disaster on Earth. Millions face acute hunger. Children are dying from malnutrition. Entire communities have been uprooted from their homes. Families that once lived productive lives now survive in overcrowded camps, abandoned schools and makeshift shelters. Disease outbreaks continue to spread through populations with little access to healthcare, clean water or basic sanitation. Yet Sudan barely registers in global headlines. The cameras are in Kyiv. The breaking-news alerts focus on the Middle East. Diplomatic energy is consumed by geopolitical rivalries stretching across Europe, Asia and the Gulf. Meanwhile, an entire nation is collapsing in slow motion. The tragedy is not merely that Sudan is suffering. The tragedy is that Sudan is suffering in silence. Keep up with the latest headlines onWhatsApp|LinkedIn Every day, families survive …

One thousand days lost in conflict: the stolen future of Sudan's ... One thousand days lost in conflict: the stolen future of Sudan’s children Media Contact : Meridith Holle January 9, 2026 Public Relations Manager [email protected] m 253-298-8913 Highlights Sudan’s conflict reaches 1 , 000-day mark 17.3 million of the 33.7 million people who require life-saving humanitarian assistance are children A family displaced by conflict from Sudan arrived in South Sudan's Border seeking refuge and safety. PORT SUDAN (January 9, 2026 ) – As Sudan’s devastating conflict reaches the grim 1,000-day mark, global Christian humanitarian organization World Vision is urging the world to respond to Sudanese children’s cries for safety, peace and a return to normalcy. What began as a political crisis in April 2023, has escalated into the world’s largest displacement, with nearly 13 million people displaced. Multiple humanitarian agencies, including World Vision, are calling it the world’s most severe humanitarian disaster. Children are bearing the brunt of the conflict—robbed of their homes, education, health and hope for the future. Today, children make up 17.3 million of the 33.7 million people wh…

Sudan: The War the World Chose to Forget [allAfrica] Three years into Sudan's civil war, the world has largely looked away. Not because the suffering has diminished. Not because peace is near. Not because the humanitarian catastrophe has been solved. The world has simply moved on.

The War the World Forgot: How Sudan's Hidden Catastrophe Reached a ... In a world saturated with crises, where headlines fixate on the war in Gaza and the invasion of Ukraine, another devastating conflict has unfolded largely unnoticed. For two years, Sudan’s civil war has consumed cities, erased communities, and displaced millions—yet it has barely pierced the global conversation. That changed dramatically on March 21st, 2025 , when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) broke through the last defenses of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum. The fall of the presidential palace, once the symbolic heart of Sudan’s civilian government, marked a seismic shift in the country’s bloody civil war. But this apparent victory raises more questions than it answers. Is the war nearing its end—or just entering a more dangerous chapter? Could Sudan finally stabilize, or is this the start of a wider regional collapse? Let’s rewind, unpack the roots of this conflict, trace the blood-soaked battlefields, and explore what this dramatic turn might mean for Sudan and the rest of the world. A Two-Year Descent Into Hell Sudan’s civil war erupted on April 15th, 2023 , but its origins trace back further.…

Sudan's forgotten war takes heavy toll on displaced citizens Families who fled El Fasher in North Darfur, seek refuge in a camp for displaced people. File: © UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Before the horrors of Sudan’s war erupt in flames or gunfire, the first warning is the silence. According to Sudanese journalist Enaam Alnour, “Before the houses burned, silence came first. An unnatural silence across the whole city.” She described how motorbikes moved slowly through neighbourhoods in El Geneina. Men on horseback scanned the streets “as if preparing for something brutal.” Smoke rising from southern districts became a language of its own. “We learned to read the smoke, which areas had fallen, which roads were no longer safe, and who would be next,” Alnour told Journalists For Justice (JFJ) during an interview in February 2026, during a  Whatsapp interview, when she answered questions shared with her. The day smoke rose from her own home, she realised the war was no longer just a story she was reporting on; it was now consuming her life. “The smell of burning was no longer news; it was the smell of my life being erased,” she said. “In that fire, I did not lose walls alone; I lost an …

A Forgotten War: Sudan's Humanitarian and Human Rights ... Ketan Tamirisa, Lara Kendall, Faraan O. Rahim, Paul Kim, Esraa Usman Eltayeb, and Nhial T. Tutlam On January 24, 2025,immediate stop-work ordersfrom the Trump administration halted critical aid operations in Sudan, disrupting life-saving treatment for severely malnourished children in US-funded medical facilities. Faced with the knowledge that compliance would result in preventable deaths among children, aid workers chose to continue theirlife-saving operationsin defiance of US political directives. This crisis comes amid Sudan’songoing war, which erupted in April 2023 from a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. Currently, over half of Sudan’s nearly50 millionpeople, including more than13 million children, face severe food insecurity, with 8.5 million at emergency levels. In addition, the nation’s economy has plummeted, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reporting a20.3% decreasein Sudan’s real GDP from 1980 to 2024. Prior to this crisis, Sudan had an estimated 6,500 primary healthcare facilities and 300 public hospitals across the country. …

The Forgotten War in Sudan - Council on Foreign Relations Share By experts and staff Published November 7, 2025 1:21 p.m. Michael Froman CFR Expert President, Council on Foreign Relations Share Sign up to receive CFR President Mike Froman’s analysis on the most important foreign policy story of the week, delivered to your inbox every Friday afternoon. Subscribe to The World This Week . I decided to focus this week’s column on a region that gets far too little attention: Africa. And on Sudan, specifically. Last night, I had the pleasure of attending the International Rescue Committee’s annual dinner, where they bestowed their Freedom Award on Lynsey Addario, a renowned photojournalist who has covered every major conflict zone in the last twenty-five years. She shared stories and made a number of important observations, but the one that stuck with me is that she had covered the original war in Darfur back in the early 2000s and had recently gone back to Sudan, only to find the same situation there more than twenty years later. Sudan’s new civil war has left more than 150,000 people dead, half the population facing acute food insecurity, and now, the city of El Fasher seized after a…

A War Not-So Forgotten: How External Powers Continue to Prolong Sudan's ... Sub-Saharan Africa A War Not-So Forgotten: How External Powers Continue to Prolong Sudan’s Civil War Alex Dent | April 7, 2026 What began in April 2023 as a power struggle between two generals over control of Sudan’s security sector has edged toward a full-scale regional conflict. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti) are not fighting this war alone. External actors, each pursuing their own strategic interests in the geopolitically significant country, have transformed the conflict into a military stalemate and de facto partition . Sudan’s civilians bear the brunt of this escalation, and as the conflict prolongs it threatens to spill over an already fragile Horn of Africa region. External involvement extends combatants’ military capacity—dragging out the war—and exacerbates diplomatic deadlock. Gulf states are supplying drones and advanced weapons to opposite sides; Saudi Arabia backs the SAF, while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) backs the RSF. Neighboring states —including Egypt, Chad, Ethiopia, Ken…