The war exceeds two years with the EAU in the focus and a displacement of the fighting to Port Sudan
Two years, thousands of dead and millions of displaced seem not enough to end a civil war that is destroying the social, economic and cultural structures of Sudan, but is also causing a serious environmental impact. In an article published in The Elephant, Ayrton-Lewis Avery has denounced that “this ecological destruction, or echocid, is not simply a warning of war. Now it is a method of fighting ».
In spite of the recent recovery of Jardum, the capital, by the Sudanese army, the war does not seem to be close to concluding, as Francesca Sibani points out in the weekly bulletin on Africa of the Internal Information Portal, “” the definitive victory still seems distant because neither of the two factions has enough military superiority to prevail over the other. ” Although last March Al-Kasalawi wrote on these pages about a change in tendency in the conflict (see mn 711, The turns change), The truth is that recent bombings on Port Sudan, where the sovereign council has installed its government, betray that the rapid support forces (RSF) still maintain an important military power thanks to the Emiratí support (see mn 710, Abudi Dabi has the key to La Paz), who continues to deny his participation in the conflict.
Port Sudan, one of the last safe places in Sudan, is suffering from the bombs that fall continuously over the city. The attacks have focused on essential infrastructure, which has caused problems of electricity and water supply, in addition to making access to humanitarian aid, which entered through the airport. The bombings on the city, where international organizations and embassies have placed their venues, suppose a dangerous escalation in the conflict, criticized even by Eau, which, as Alfonso Masoliver points out in La Razón, “also complicates any possibility of getting a truce.”
Eau in the focus
The Sudanese government, led by Al Burhan, has broken diplomatic relations with the country of the Persian Gulf. After the measure, there is the decision of the International Court of Justice (TIJ) to dismiss the case presented by Sudan against United Arab Emirates (EAU) for breaching the Genocide Convention. Although both countries are signatories of the Convention for the Prevention and Sanction of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, EAU is not under the jurisdiction of Tij. However, not only this state of the Gulf is in the focus, because, as Bruna Sironi denounces in Nigrizia, many of the weapons received by the RSF through EAU have their origin in Europe.
The situation in Sudan has evolved little in recent months (see mn 706, The Jardum Labyrinth) and the country is still mired in the maze of the war. The departure seems complicated, because to the political and geostrategic interests the economic ones are also added. The control of natural resources such as oil, gold or uranium are also, without a doubt, part of the equation.
In the upper image, smoke column in the city of Port Sudan after a drone attack against the airport and a military base on May 6. Photography: Getty
