A proxy war is being waged in Sudan taking a heavy toll of human lives and leaving behind a trail of blood, rape and genocidal violence on an unprecedented scale. The fierceness has assumed such proportions that the country is now being virtually carved out into two, and a partition seems imminent following the fall of El-Fasher in the western region October 28. All this is for a bloody power struggle within the country and the lure of gold locked up in the country’s subterranean region on which some foreign powers have set their eyes.

The involvement of foreign powers is such that both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fighting for grabbing power in Sudan since April 2023, have been accusing each other of receiving support from foreign powers. Deeply con

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