Sudan at War

Source: The International Crisis Group (ICG) posted on 21 December 2023 a 42-minute podcast titled “Sudan at War.” This is a panel discussion moderated by ICG’s President Comfort Ero at the 2023 Doha Forum. The panelists are US special envoy for the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer, UN special envoy for the Horn of Africa Hanna Tetteh, director of the Sudanese think tank Confluence Advisory Kholood Khair, and ICG Africa director Murithi Mutiga.

The discussion reflects the situation in Sudan as of a week earlier when there was more optimism about the prospects for a ceasefire. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo had agreed in a meeting in Djibouti to accept an unconditional ceasefire that the two generals subsequently ignored.

There is growing recognition that the African-led peace process is not working, and the UN needs to become more engaged. Sudan has become a wider problem than one confined to Africa. The Saudi/US-led peace process has been put aside for the time being. So far, the belligerents have had no incentive to end the fighting. The country is on the verge of disintegration.