By Diing Magot
Sudan is bleeding; 25,000 dead, 10 million displaced, cities turned to ghosts. Yet a viral whisper promises salvation: Kick out the UAE, and in 15 minutes, Sudan becomes the African Switzerland. Seductive. Simple. Deadly wrong.
The crisis didn’t ignite in 2023 when Burhan and Hemedti turned Khartoum into a battlefield. It didn’t spark in 2019 when Bashir fell. It began in 1956—the year Sudan declared independence, 15 years before the UAE even existed. From day one, a toxic fusion of military brass and Islamist zealots seized security, politics, and wealth through guns and fear. Coups in ’58, ’69, ’89. Sharia imposed in ’83, igniting civil war. Darfur’s genocide in 2003, courtesy of Janjaweed militias—today’s Rapid Support Forces in fancy uniforms. The 2019 revolution flickered hope, only for the old beast to split into two snarling heads.
This isn’t state versus rebels. It’s militia versus militia, both nursed in Bashir’s cradle. On one side: Burhan’s army fused with Islamist fighters, backed by Egypt, Saudi gold, Iranian drones, Russian mercenaries. On the other: Hemedti’s RSF—ex-Janjaweed warlords rebranded, allegedly armed by the UAE, fueled by Chad’s borders and Libya’s chaos. Both slaughter civilians. Both loot gold. Both are accused of horrors that stain the Nile red. Two branches, one poisoned tree.
Sudan is a treasure map every power wants to steal: gold veins, gum arabic monopolies, Red Sea ports, Nile lifelines. Thirteen countries meddle—Egypt guards the river, Russia hunts naval bases, Iran ships drones, Turkey courts Islamists, Qatar funds Brotherhood ghosts. The UAE? Yes, it trades gold, eyes ports, and faces credible claims of arming the RSF. But singling out Abu Dhabi is a magician’s trick—it distracts while the military-Islamist system laughs, fattened by every foreign bullet.
Blaming one emirate absolves the rest. It lets Burhan play “legitimate general” while bombing markets. It lets Hemedti pose as revolutionary while raping villages. It keeps Sudanese voices drowned in proxy noise. Simplification is the enemy of solutions. Every season we crown a new villain, the people pay in blood.
The cure isn’t exile—it’s amputation. Dismantle the military-Islamist machine. Demobilize every militia. Demand justice without amnesty. Force regional powers to mediate for Sudan, not against it. Until then, scapegoats will rotate, and the poison will spread. Sudan’s enemy has a Sudanese face—and it’s been staring back since 1956.
