Cutting the Arteries: How the Militia’s End Began (3/3)
As I See
Adel El-Baz
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There is another artery that has nothing to do with borders: the “open sky.” It was exploited as a cover, allowing the militia to breach this gap and bring in weapons and supplies. A country the size of Sudan cannot fully cover its vast territory with air defenses or jamming systems; even Russia and Ukraine have been unable to achieve complete coverage. Today, however, all airstrips used by the militia are listed in a known “target bank” and are being dealt with on a daily basis, as we are witnessing in Nyala, the airstrips of Hamarat Al-Sheikh, and elsewhere.
About ten days ago, Egyptian intelligence released a video showing how jamming and protection systems were neutralized and how weapons depots and the airport were destroyed. The report stated: “The supply nerve in Nyala has been severed.”
This explains the UAE’s irritation and what prompted it to leak news of Pakistani weapons to Reuters. They realize that the arrival of such weapons would mean complete air superiority for the Sudanese Armed Forces. Since the militia’s supply lines depend entirely on external support, cutting these arteries would push the UAE and its militia into a “desert maze,” where they will be buried.
At that point, thousands of vehicles and mobile units will become worthless, while 32 army formations—currently on high alert—will advance under dense air cover, no longer threatened by strategic drones, which will have been neutralized. Any armed force that loses its ability to replenish its logistics is, in practice, without a future, regardless of how much equipment it possesses. The militia has yet to understand that it is not facing the Sudanese army alone, but rather a regional order that has begun to realize it is a permanent destabilization project—and that tolerating it poses a danger to everyone (Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic). An army whose ribs are broken can still stand; but one whose arteries are severed dies on its feet.
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There are other arteries—economic and diplomatic—that keep the militia alive, and these are entirely managed by the UAE. Gaining control over borders and over the mines from which gold is smuggled would sever a vital artery of funding.
Likewise, thwarting diplomatic maneuvers aimed at providing political cover for the militia’s crimes has become imperative—especially as the world’s perception has shifted following the exposure of the militia’s nature after the crimes in El-Fasher. It is no longer seen as a warring party, but as a “genocidal group.” The space for diplomatic maneuvering by the militia and its sponsor has shrunk dramatically, narrowing to the size of a needle’s eye.
European parliaments are now under pressure from lobbying groups in the United States and Britain to criminalize the militia, as seen in the British Parliament, where MPs called for holding Mansour bin Zayed accountable for his role in financing it. What is needed now is a more effective diplomatic role and the mobilization of diaspora communities to pressure European public opinion. For the first time, Sudanese communities abroad and Darfur activists have begun to grasp the levers of influence, to the point that the echo of the militia’s crimes is reaching lawmakers who once did not know where El-Fasher was located, but now know its name as one synonymous with massacres.
There must also be moves within Africa, where the image of the war remains blurred. Exposing the militia’s genocidal nature to African audiences would sever the artery of sympathy and supplies that flow through certain countries on the continent.
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The next phase must not be limited to the militia’s military collapse alone; it must also include diplomatic and media collapse to complete the picture of “cutting the arteries”—an operation that could decide the war before the militia is physically destroyed.
The full picture has now emerged: this was never merely a war of cities and camps, but a “war of arteries.” In Libya, the first bloodline was cut; in Chad, the second tributary dried up, and with them the mercenaries’ dreams began to crumble. From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, then Ethiopia, the corridors upon which illusions of power were built have been closed.
Through this series, we have shown that the militia is in the process of losing its six lifelines:
Arms arteries
Mercenary arteries
Gold arteries
Diplomatic arteries
Airspace and border arteries
The question is no longer, “Will the militia fall?” but rather, “When will time run out?” Time is no longer on its side, the region cannot tolerate it, and the world is unable to continue covering for it. The militia died the moment the process of cutting its arteries began. What we are witnessing now is not a struggle for survival, but the fluttering of a dying wing before the final fall. The best possible scenario for the militia and its sponsor is to lay down arms and flee—into hell, and an evil fate indeed.
