But we’ve still got plenty for you in this week’s newsletter, including Trump vowing to help end the war in Sudan , the impact of sanctions on Russia’s top oil companies , and Mexico’s pushback on Trump once again floating strikes on drug cartels there.
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It’s been a busy week in the world, and FP’s news team has been all over it with pieces on a new (and mysterious) Ukraine peace plan and the Russian envoy linked to it as well as Trump’s meeting with MBS and its nuclear implications.
But we’ve still got plenty for you in this week’s newsletter, including Trump vowing to help end the war in Sudan, the impact of sanctions on Russia’s top oil companies, and Mexico’s pushback on Trump once again floating strikes on drug cartels there.
The World’s Most Overlooked Conflict
After two and a half years of fighting, the civil war in Sudan between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is slowly but surely garnering more international attention following a massacre in El Fasher late last month as the RSF overran the city.
Though the conflict is estimated to have killed more than 150,000 people and has sparked what the United Nations has characterized as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the global community has consistently neglected the war.
During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged U.S. President Donald Trump to help end the war. Saudi Arabia sits across the Red Sea from Sudan and views the war there as a threat to its national security.
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