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A proxy war between Iran and the West unfolds in one of Africa's poorest countries — and there's no good outcome

In today’s newsletter: With tens of thousands dead, millions displaced and no sign of the war abating, a ‘deafening silence of global indifference’ threatens the country’s future

At least 5.4 million people have been displaced by the fierce fighting that broke out in the country in April

Like most contemporary wars, Sudan’s war cannot be reduced to a contest between two sides. It is many other things, among them a gun class of constantly shifting coalitions of specialists in violence and political trading that prey on civilians. Sudan’s peripheries have long been a lawless arena of brutal…

Editorial: The war between Sudan’s two generals has sparked the resurgence of brutal ethnic violence

Since the start of the war in Sudan between government troops and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the role of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, said to have links to the paramilitary forces, has remained unclear. Against this backdrop, social media users shared a video which they claimed shows Wagner…

Leaders from Sudan’s seven neighboring countries agreed on Thursday in Cairo to a new Egyptian-led initiative seeking to resolve the deepening conflict in the African country.

Egypt is keen to protect itself as Sudan’s military strongmen wage war.

British MPs have been warned of ‘systematic ethnic cleansing’ at the hands of paramilitary forces