'Humiliated, broken, powerless': Sudan enters fourth year of war

As Sudan's brutal civil war enters its fourth year, a fragile calm in the capital masks a nationwide catastrophe of displacement, starvation, and alleged war crimes. | Contesto: cronaca

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Sudan has entered a fourth year of devastating civil war, a conflict marked by mass displacement, catastrophic hunger, and widespread allegations of atrocities. While isolated pockets of the capital, Khartoum, show fragile signs of life, the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to rage across the nation, shattering lives and infrastructure. The grim anniversary arrives with no political solution in sight, leaving millions of civilians trapped in what the United Nations describes as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The human cost of the prolonged conflict is staggering. Over eight million people have been forced from their homes, creating the largest internal displacement crisis globally. Nearly two million have fled across borders, placing immense strain on neighboring countries like Chad and South Sudan. Within Sudan, the war has crippled agriculture and shattered supply chains, pushing approximately 18 million people—nearly a third of the population—into acute food insecurity. Aid agencies warn that famine is imminent in several regions, including Darfur and Kordofan, where humanitarian access is severely restricted by fighting and bureaucratic impediments. Beyond the statistics lies a landscape of profound human suffering and alleged war crimes. Residents and human rights monitors describe a conflict characterized by extreme brutality. Both the SAF and RSF have been accused of indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, systematic sexual violence, and the looting and destruction of vital infrastructure, including hospitals and water systems. In Darfur, where the RSF and allied militias hold sway, reports of ethnically targeted killings have evoked grim memories of the genocide two decades ago. The pervasive violence has left a population feeling, as one resident summarized, "humiliated, broken, powerless." The war's roots lie in the failed political transition following the 2019 uprising that ousted longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir. The SAF and RSF, former allies who jointly orchestrated a coup in 2021, turned on each other in April 2023 over a disputed plan to integrate the...

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