Sudan is now a critical puzzle piece in the era of great power competition between global economies.
and the RSF as “country bumpkins” unfit to rule the land. Distrust was baked into the power-sharing deal from the start. As tensions mounted and forces were moving into strategic missions, the two generals met April 14 to de-escalate. They left that meeting with a promise to return the next day and meet with a mediator. Neither one showed up. Shots were fired outside the airport that same day. Each side now says the other is provoking violence.
Sudan is no closer to democracy than it was after it gained independence 30 years ago; the power struggle between leaders is ripe for foreign interference.The country representative for the World Health Organization, who evacuated via a 30-hour journey across the desert, said his team was unable to access the national laboratories to secure pathogens such as measles, cholera and polio once the facility was captured by fighting factions.
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