Sudan: another partition?

The biggest city in western Sudan, swollen to half a million or more people due to minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel forces at the end of October after a two-year siege.

Displaced people arrive in South Sudan from Sudan through the Joda border crossing. Killing in Sudan has been non-stop since October. It’s the worst massacre yet in a civil war that has already killed 150,000 people and made one-third of the population refugees, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the United Nations by Ala Kheir

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 6, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—The ceasefire in Gaza, however shaky, is freeing up some bandwidth for the world’s media to fret about other ongoing massacres, and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres wasted no time in turning the spotlight on Sudan. “The horrifying crisis ...

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