The Washington Post published on 15 November 2025 an article titled "UAE Faces Growing Outrage over Support for Paramilitary in Sudan" by Tobi Raji.
Advocacy groups, members of the US Congress, and regional experts are stepping up their criticism of the UAE for supporting the genocidal activities of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan. The UAE continues to deny its support for the RSF as evidence to the contrary mounts.
The New York Times published on 19 April 2025 an article and photo spread titled "Trump's Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation" by Declan Walsh and Ivor Prickett.
Within days of the dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration, over 300 soup kitchens run by Emergency Response Rooms, a network of democracy activists turned volunteer aid workers, were forced to close. Aid groups on the ground in Sudan say the flow of American money stopped two months ago and USAID officials who helped make the payments have been fired.
The Irish Times published on 13 December 2024 an article titled "Sudan War Pushing Country towards Partition, US Envoy Says" by David Pilling.
According to US envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello, Sudan is at risk of breaking apart or becoming a "failed state" as foreign powers stoke a war that continues for decades and exacerbates an already massive humanitarian catastrophe.
Aljazeera published on 29 March 2024 an article titled "Sudan Slips into Famine as Warring Sides Starve Civilians" by Virginia Pietromarchi.
One year since war broke out in Sudan, the article says that interrupted online remittances, soaring food prices, a reduction in local cereal production, and warring factions preventing the delivery of food aid have put Sudan in the middle of a "humanitarian disaster." The article quotes experts who predict famine will occur in areas such as Darfur by June of this year.
The United Nations published on 20 March 2024 a press release titled "Conflict Between Warring Parties in Sudan Pushing Millions to Brink of Famine, Top UN Officials Tell Security Council, Warning Entire Generation Could Be Destroyed."
Comment: Neither the Aljazeera article nor the UN officials argue that famine currently exists in Sudan, although both believe it is likely in the next two to three months. According to the UN, famine is a technical term that exists when three conditions come together in a specific geographic area such as a region or country. The conditions are:
--At least 20 percent of the population in that particular area are facing extreme levels of hunger,
--30 percent of the children in the same place are wasted, or too thin for their height, and
--The death rate has doubled from the average, surpassing two deaths per 10,000 daily for adults and four deaths per 10,000 daily for children.
BBC TV ran a 6-minute clip on 19 March 2024 titled "Millions Face Starvation in Sudan as Warring Factions Block Aid Delivery."
This coverage is one of the few occasions when a Western media organization has reported recently from inside Sudan, including Khartoum and Omdurman. The clip makes the point that media coverage of the situation in Ukraine, Gaza, and now Haiti has drowned out the horrific situation in Sudan.
Aljazeera published on 20 March 2024 an article titled "Sudan One of the 'Worst Humanitarian Disasters in Recent Memory,' UN Warns."
More than 18 million Sudanese are facing acute food insecurity and more than 8 million are internally displaced or refugees in neighboring countries because of the continued fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. Efforts to arrange a ceasefire have failed. Sudan may slip into the world's largest hunger crisis.
The New York Times published on 20 December 2023 an article titled "Sudan's Army Faces Scrutiny after Major City Falls to Rival Forces" by Abdi Latif Dahir.
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) confirmed that they withdrew from Wad Madani, Sudan's second largest city about 85 miles southeast of Khartoum, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began attacking the city. An estimated 300,000 people, many of them displaced from Khartoum, have now fled Wad Madani. The fall of Wad Madani raises serious questions about the ability of the SAF to maintain control of those parts of Sudan that it still holds.
The Washington Post published on 30 November 2023 an article titled "Sudan's Warring Sides Forcibly Recruit Civilians, Even Refugees Who Return" by Katharine Houreld.
Some 50,000 Sudanese have fled to Ethiopia as refugees since the beginning of the civil war. Some of the males have been forced from refugee camps to fight in Sudan. Others found the conditions in refugee camps so bad that they returned to Sudan on their own and were then forced to join the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces or Sudanese military.
Reuters published on 5 May 2023 an article titled "Fighting Rages in Khartoum, Civilians Complain of Being Forgotten" by Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir.
The ongoing fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has turned Khartoum into a humanitarian disaster as any semblance of law and order and respect for humanity seems to have ended.
