Around 50 million people now face the prospect of famine, acute food insecurity, or displacement in Sudan. The warring parties are as far away from a negotiated solution as they have ever been, with the RSF declaring a parallel government in February and the SAF recapturing the presidential palace in Khartoum from RSF control on March 21. Yet U.S. President Donald Trump—true to form when it comes to his lack of Africa policy—has not publicly acknowledged the suffering, let alone lifted a finger to stop it. His response so far has been staggering indifference and, in some cases, outright sabotage.
Since April 2023, when war erupted between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), more than 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan. The U.S. State Department has determined that the RSF’s brutal ethnic cleansing, mass sexual violence, and indiscriminate slaughter amount to crimes against humanity and genocide and that both the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have committed war crimes.
Since April 2023, when war erupted between Sudan’s military and the param
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