Since 2023, Sudan has collapsed into a full-scale civil war driven by longstanding political fragmentation and deep divisions between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). What began as a dispute over integrating the RSF into the national army has spiralled into one of the world’s most catastrophic humanitarian disasters. Yet, global attention remains disturbingly faint.
Since fighting erupted in April 2023, more than 40,000 people have been killed, and over 4 million displaced, according to humanitarian agencies figures that should have jolted the world into coordinated action. Instead, Sudan sinks deeper into chaos.
El Fasher, the last major city in Darfur, previously outside RSF control, symbolises this collapse. After an 18-month siege, RSF fighters broke through SAF defenses late last month and seized the city. Reports from rights groups describe a massacre: the Sudan Doctors Network estimates at least 1,500 civilians killedsince the takeover, including over 450 people murdered inside a hospital.
Locals recount chilling details community kitchens targeted with drone strikes and families reduced to eating animal feed and even hide to survive. On Monday, 3 November, 2025 the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed what survivors have long
This is the IPC’s second famine determination in the war, following Zamzam camp in August 2024. Three nearby towns receiving fleeing civilians Tawila, Mellit, and Tawisha are also teetering on the edge. Sudan’s tragedy is not new. The country has endured decades of conflict from the Second Civil War and Darfur atrocities to the turmoil that followed Omar al-Bashir’s 2019 removal. Yet, the scale and brutality of the current war represent a new low, one worsened by the near-total paralysis of the international system.
The Chronicle is deeply disturbed by what can only be described as a genocide unfolding in slow motion. And while Sudan bleeds, world leaders offer little more than statements of concern.
At the recent UN General Assembly, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama condemned the atrocities and urged collective action. But rhetoric has not translated into resolve. Instead, world powers have allowed the conflict to become a proxy battlefield.
Nations including Iran, Egypt, Russia, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Libya have reportedly taken sides, supplying arms and political cover to the warring factions. Their involvement has expanded and intensified the war, not helped end it.
A painful truth emerges: the urgency applied to crises in Gaza or Ukraine is not extended to Sudan. When African lives are at risk, the global system appears slow, hesitant and indifferent. The United Nations and European Union show little of the unity and speed they marshal elsewhere. And the African Union once envisioned as the continent’s guardian has again proven toothless.
The Chronicle acknowledges the few voices calling for peace including the United States and UN Secretary-General AntónioGuterres. But isolated statements do not constitute a strategy. The world cannot continue pretending Sudan’s destruction is an inevitable tragedy. It is a preventable one if only leaders choose to act.
Sudan deserves more than silence. It deserves protection, pressure on foreign enablers, a humanitarian surge, and a credible peace process. No nation’s citizens are more valuable than another’s. And no African life is disposable.
Sudan is crying out for help. The world must finally listen.
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