The Take: Who is keeping the fight alive in Sudan’s war?

Three years of brutal conflict have devastated Sudan, leaving civilians to bear the brunt of a forgotten war as international attention wanes. | Contesto: cronaca

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• The Take: Who is keeping the fight alive in Sudan’s war?

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Three years of relentless war have transformed Sudan, once a nation of rich cultural and historical heritage, into a landscape of profound humanitarian suffering and societal collapse. The conflict, which erupted in April 2021, has pitted the Sudanese Armed Forces against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a brutal struggle for power, dragging the country into one of the world's most severe crises. The capital, Khartoum, and regions like Darfur and Kordofan have become epicenters of violence, displacing millions and shattering the basic infrastructure of daily life. The human cost is staggering. According to United Nations agencies, over 14,000 people have been killed, though local groups believe the true toll is far higher. More than 8 million people have been forced from their homes, creating the largest internal displacement crisis globally. Critical services have disintegrated; hospitals have been bombed, schools shuttered, and markets destroyed. A famine, described by aid officials as entirely man-made, now looms over vast swathes of the population, with nearly 18 million people facing acute hunger. The war has effectively erased a decade of fragile economic progress, plunging the nation into a pre-modern state of survival. Amid this cataclysm, the burden of resilience and resistance has fallen overwhelmingly on Sudan's civilian population. Neighborhood resistance committees, born from the pro-democracy uprising of 2019, have evolved into vital local governance structures, organizing everything from emergency food distribution and makeshift clinics to community security patrols. Women's groups are at the forefront, providing critical psychosocial support and documenting human rights abuses often ignored by the warring parties. These grassroots networks operate in a vacuum, as formal state authority has vanished and international humanitarian access remains severely obstructed by the fighting factions. The international response has been widely criticized as inadequate and fragmented. Diplomatic efforts, including talks in Jeddah, have repeatedly stalled, failing to secure a lasting ceasefire or meaningful political dialogue. While donors have pledged...

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