Post by SAKIL on Jan 24, 2024 4:44:28 GMT
with its own base in Djibouti, which has a strategic and prestige motivation, which was greatly injured after its humiliating withdrawal from the Sahel. AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN BUTTON SHOP But while these war skirmishes alter navigation in the Red Sea, another more terrible and deadly war develops and intensifies inland of the western shore, in Sudan . This country (partly the Nubia of ancient Pharaonic Egypt) has access to the Red Sea and a key port for its economy in the town of Port Sudan. Since April of this year, two military factions, that of the official Army ( SFA: Sudan Armed Forces ) and that of the mercenaries of special forces ( RSF: Rapid Support Forces ) are fighting to the death and plunging the country into a terrifying situation .
The dead now exceed ten thousand. Almost seven million people have been forced to leave their homes and the vast majority are in a situation of what the UN calls “extreme food insecurity”: that is, hunger (4). Sudan as a mirror Phone Number Database of the African disaster This umpteenth African war has little or nothing to do with values or ideological disputes. It responds, in reality, to a fight of ambitions between two military factions that intend to appropriate the loot. Both were allies in the removal of pro-Islamist general Omar Bashir , an enemy of the West since he decided to protect Osama Bin Laden in the late 1990s. They maintained that alliance to disable the weak transitional civilian government.
Which the West did not bother to effectively support, convinced that a provisional military solution could be more effective in warding off the potential return of the Islamists. In the end, the corral proved too narrow for the two fighting cocks: the commander-in-chief of the Army and de facto president, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan , and the leader of the mercenaries, General Mohamed Hamdan (although everyone knows him for his nickname: Hemeti) But, as is also the norm in Africa, there are external agents deeply involved in the war. Burhan is supported by Egypt and; while Hemeti is actively backed by the United Arab Emirates and, more disturbingly for the West, the Russian Wagner militias. As the months go by, Sudan looks more and more like Libya: another monument of Western incompetence in Africa.
The dead now exceed ten thousand. Almost seven million people have been forced to leave their homes and the vast majority are in a situation of what the UN calls “extreme food insecurity”: that is, hunger (4). Sudan as a mirror Phone Number Database of the African disaster This umpteenth African war has little or nothing to do with values or ideological disputes. It responds, in reality, to a fight of ambitions between two military factions that intend to appropriate the loot. Both were allies in the removal of pro-Islamist general Omar Bashir , an enemy of the West since he decided to protect Osama Bin Laden in the late 1990s. They maintained that alliance to disable the weak transitional civilian government.
Which the West did not bother to effectively support, convinced that a provisional military solution could be more effective in warding off the potential return of the Islamists. In the end, the corral proved too narrow for the two fighting cocks: the commander-in-chief of the Army and de facto president, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan , and the leader of the mercenaries, General Mohamed Hamdan (although everyone knows him for his nickname: Hemeti) But, as is also the norm in Africa, there are external agents deeply involved in the war. Burhan is supported by Egypt and; while Hemeti is actively backed by the United Arab Emirates and, more disturbingly for the West, the Russian Wagner militias. As the months go by, Sudan looks more and more like Libya: another monument of Western incompetence in Africa.