Some months ago, during a quiet exchange with people who follow Sudan not through headlines but through proximity, one remark stood out. Crises do not end when fighting slows. They settle into people, institutions and habits shaped by earlier breakdowns. Experience does not disappear. It accumulates. That observation remains relevant today, as Sudan moves through another violent phase with unsettling speed.
Sudan often slips from international focus precisely when attention matters most. For a long time, the conflict was framed as a narrow struggle between two generals competing for control of the capital city of Khartoum. That description no longer explains what is unfolding. What is happening across Darfur and beyond now reflects something more deliberate and more durable than a conventional civil war.
To understand the present situation, it is necessary to return to April 2023.
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