“Point of no return”, 'Cataclysmic', the international media vie with each other in superlatives to describe the tragedy suffered by the people of Sudan. In the shadow of the war against Ghaza and the threat of a full-scale war in the Middle East, Sudan too is sinking into the abyss of violence, under the almost amused gaze of the main instigators who, with dollars and the latest war materiel, are fueling the militias of the Rapid Support Forces against Khartoum's regular army. This chaos has prompted the International Organization for Migration to sound the alarm about the threat of a breakdown, or even the disappearance, of the whole society as a structure. The IOM fears that tens of thousands of people will die in the months to come if no “comprehensive, massive and coordinated” action is taken, after 16 months of bloody war between the army of General Abdel Fatah al-Burhane and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have ravaged the country. Thrown onto the roads of exodus, hundreds of thousands of people have already found refuge in neighboring countries, whose reception capacities cannot contain the flood of refugees. The less fortunate are “patiently” waiting to die as a result of the intensive bombardments that are hitting certain regions and the outskirts of the capital, or to perish on an empty stomach. The picture painted does not lend itself to hope. Political talks between the protagonists have come to a standstill since the fake Jeddah agreement, which immediately fell apart under the pressure of the international community's well-known instigators. Even today's meeting in Geneva, under the auspices of the USA and Saudi Arabia, is unlikely to shed any light on the fog of maneuvering and underground dealings between the backers of death. The stakes are very high in this country, the world's third-largest gold producer, with a large proportion of its deposits controlled by the warlord Hemedti, but it also has great agricultural potential. The country is the world's leading exporter of arabic gum, a highly prized product in the food industry, and also plays a central role in the export of livestock to the region. In addition to these resources, and as the epicenter of an international game of influence between rival countries, will Sudan suffer the same fate as Libya? On the ground, the modus operandi is the same, proof of the existence of the same mentor, who is operating surreptitiously in the region over the bodies of the 150,000 dead, 11 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations, 45,000 in the last two weeks alone. More than half of the region's 50 million inhabitants live with acute food insecurity. Will the ephemeral hope of the Geneva meeting be revived?
El Moudjahid
