Sudan civil war an outlier in Africa

There are 55 countries in Africa, and but only two have open wars. Even that many nations are not nearly enough to provide each major ethnic and linguistic group with its own sovereign territory.

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, left, leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, while General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan commands the ‘official’ Sudanese Armed Forces. The mercenaries who work for them are the scum of the earth, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 17, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—This week British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “Many have given up on Sudan, but that is wrong. It's morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as one subjected t...

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