Something Just Shifted in Sudan — And It Shows
The UK's role in failing Sudan goes beyond arming the UAE - they factored in a price on the lives of the Sudanese people too. Right, so they’ll tell you Sudan is a tragedy. That it is distant, unfortunate, chaotic, one of those conflicts the world can’t quite get a grip on. But that’s not true. Sudan is not a tragedy. It is, at least in part, an accounting decision. The UK cut its aid budget back in in 2020. Folded Department for International Development into the Foreign Office. Scattered the people who know how to stop mass killings before they start. And when Sudan fell in 2023, when the…
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