A doomsday scenario in Sudan as war rages in parts of Africa

Eleven countries out of 54, containing more than a quarter of Africa’s population, are at war, and mostly they are at war with themselves.

Displaced people arrive in South Sudan from Sudan through the Joda border crossing. An estimated nine million people have fled their homes in Sudan since the war began just over a year ago, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations by Ala Kheir

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 29, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—“We could see an all-out war between all the tribes and that is really the doomsday scenario. At this point, it’s not unrealistic,” the head of an international non-government organization that is working in Sudan told the Al Jazeera news agency...

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