What the World is Ignoring About Sudan’s Civil War

The crisis in Sudan is taking another devastating turn.

Over the past several days, a genocidal paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has attacked a sprawling refugee camp in Darfur. As I write this, nearly 400,000 people have fled the camp and are now traversing the desert in search of safety. Meanwhile, the RSF is mounting an offensive on the last major city in Darfur not under its control.

This escalation comes as the world rather quietly marked the second anniversary of Sudan’s civil war. In April 2022, two rival generals vied for control of the country, plunging it into chaos. Two years on, Sudan has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with over 12 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.

One of them is Dalia Abdel Moneim. She fled her home in Khartoum shortly after the war began and is now living in Cairo. She joined me for a conversation about the unfolding catastrophe in Sudan.

We begin by discussing the dire situation in Darfur and move into a wide-ranging conversation about the broader dynamics of the conflict—including the possibility that Sudan is heading toward a de facto partition, with the RSF controlling Darfur in the west and the Sudanese Armed Forces holding Khartoum and much of the south and east.

Our full conversation is available below the fold for paying subscribers. It’s part of our ongoing coverage of the Sudan crisis. For many media outlets, this is not a story that merits sustained attention. But for me, it is one of the most important global stories of our time, given the sheer scale of human suffering.

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The full episode is available below for our paid subscribers.