Description: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have warned that Sudan’s relief operations in the North Darfur region were already collapsing since the fall of El Fasher in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Refugee crisis was instigated in the Darfur province prompting thousands of civilians to flee the RSF’s massacres and genocidal warfare campaigns, while refugee camps and relief stations across the province were either looted or emptied out due to the overwhelming numbers of civilians transiting or arriving at the camps. The peace initiative proposed by the US, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE has encountered a protracted period of complexion as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have conditioned their participation in the peace platform by demanding the RSF to be disarmed and withdrawn from the areas mostly populated by civilians and were insignificant to the war efforts on both sides. The RSF took control of El Fasher on 26 Oct when horrifying images of mass killings emerged across global media platforms showing scores of murdered civilians.
Impact: The ineptness of the international community and the overall foreign interference by state actors in the war in Sudan broke the principles of warfare and collapsed the country in its systematic entirety with unprecedented levels of humanitarian crisis that overwhelmed the UN’s fragile infrastructure for relief in Sudan. The fall of El Fasher and the chaos that later ensued led towards the consequential dissolution of any hope for peace or some kind of diplomacy. The SAF and the RSF are currently symmetrically holding key strategic regions, such as gold mines and trade routes, and continue to reinforce their campaigns for political and military legitimacy on the expense of human life and humanitarian disaster. The peace initiative has stalled as neither side has been publicly pressured towards resolving the war through negotiations or diplomacy while most of the countries involved in outlining the peace proposal are supporters of either the RSF or the SAF. The RSF would aim to build upon the warfare momentum gained with the occupation of El Fasher and expand its military operations towards other crucial regions such as the north, south or west Kordofan in the central parts of Sudan further overwhelming the SAF and its limited capacities of retaliation with attacks on crucial strategic hubs such as Khartoum.