{"id":56615,"date":"2025-11-02T02:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56615"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:47:33","slug":"american-media-outlets-track-alarming-shifts-in-the-sudan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/american-media-outlets-track-alarming-shifts-in-the-sudan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"American Media Outlets Track Alarming Shifts in the Sudan War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading American outlets \u2014 The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN \u2014 have converged in their coverage of a critical turning point in Sudan\u2019s conflict: the fall of El Fasher in Darfur to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The reports highlight allegations of ethnic massacres and the involvement of regional powers \u2014 notably the United Arab Emirates \u2014 in arming the militia. Collectively, the reports agree that the Sudanese war has entered a deadlier and more complex phase amid growing international paralysis in containing the humanitarian collapse.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times focused on recent developments in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, and the Sudanese army\u2019s withdrawal from its last major military base in the region, marking the RSF\u2019s full control over Darfur. Describing the event as \u201ca pivotal shift in Sudan\u2019s brutal civil war,\u201d the paper reported that the city\u2019s fall, after an 18-month siege, has intensified fears that the paramilitary forces \u2014 already dominant across much of Darfur \u2014 could embark on a new wave of ethnically driven killings.<\/p>\n

The report depicted El Fasher as one of the most devastating battlefields in a conflict that has now entered its third year. Its capture, it said, meant that Sudan\u2019s army had lost its final foothold in a vast region roughly the size of France. The RSF, according to the Times, redoubled its efforts to seize the city last April after being expelled from the capital, Khartoum. Months of relentless drone strikes and heavy artillery bombardments culminated in the RSF taking the city\u2019s main military base on Friday, scattering Sudanese troops and allied Darfuri fighters into residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The report noted widespread claims on social media and from aid groups accusing RSF fighters of pursuing and killing civilians fleeing the city after army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered a withdrawal \u201cto spare civilians and prevent further destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing Yale University\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab, the Times said satellite imagery provided evidence of suspected mass killings carried out by the RSF during the city\u2019s fall. The images showed clusters of bodies near an earthen berm built by the militia over the past five months to encircle El Fasher, consistent with reports of \u201cexecutions near the barrier and killings of those attempting to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verified video footage reviewed by the newspaper showed jubilant RSF fighters riding camels and motorbikes through empty streets over the weekend, while another clip depicted them at the deserted airport \u2014 one of the army\u2019s last positions. Human Rights Watch said the images from El Fasher \u201creveal a grim reality: the RSF is committing mass atrocities with near-total impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n

CNN published an in-depth report titled \u201cFears of a Bloodbath as Rebels Besiege Thousands in a Sudanese City.\u201d It quoted several UN officials expressing concern over developments in El Fasher.<\/p>\n

Justin Lynch, Sudan researcher and managing director of Conflict Insights, told CNN that RSF control of the city marked \u201cthe beginning of what we fear could be a massacre of civilians.\u201d UN humanitarian coordinator Tom Fletcher said hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped without food or medical care as escape routes are blocked amid \u201cintense shelling and ground assaults engulfing the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the RSF pledged to protect civilians and offer safe corridors, the UN Human Rights Office said it had received \u201cmultiple, deeply disturbing reports\u201d of atrocities by RSF fighters, including summary executions of unarmed men and footage showing dozens shot or buried in mass graves. Several reports indicated that the killings appeared to be ethnically motivated.<\/p>\n

Ghettachio Biru, senior analyst at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), warned of \u201ca high risk of ethnically targeted attacks, especially against non-Arab groups.\u201d CNN noted that army chief Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (\u201cHemedti\u201d) are battling for control of Sudan, both having played pivotal roles in the 2021 coup that derailed Sudan\u2019s democratic transition.<\/p>\n

Both men face Western sanctions over war crimes, but the U.S. has specifically accused Hemedti\u2019s RSF and allied Arab militias of committing genocide \u2014 the second such declaration in Sudan within two decades. In announcing its finding last January, Washington said the RSF carried out \u201cdeliberate attacks on civilians,\u201d including systematic killings of \u201cmen and boys \u2014 even infants \u2014 based on ethnicity,\u201d as well as the \u201ctargeted rape and sexual violence\u201d of women from certain groups and the \u201cmurder of fleeing civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sudanese military government has accused the UAE of supplying weapons to the RSF, a charge Abu Dhabi denies. Biru noted that in Kordofan, Sudan\u2019s army and its allies seek to secure key routes linking central Sudan to Darfur, while the RSF is consolidating its hold in the west to cement a de facto breakaway administration.<\/p>\n

With cease-fire talks stalling, analysts told CNN that the outcomes of the battles for El Fasher and Kordofan could determine the future trajectory of Sudan\u2019s war and its political fate. International human-rights lawyer Yona Diamond urged the global community to act, warning that \u201cthe world cannot allow the RSF to carry out another genocide in Darfur with impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal concentrated on the UAE\u2019s role in the conflict, reporting that U.S. intelligence agencies say Abu Dhabi has this year supplied growing quantities of weapons \u2014 including advanced Chinese-made drones \u2014 to a major Sudanese militia, bolstering a force accused of genocide and fueling one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n

According to the Journal, assessments by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department\u2019s intelligence bureau indicate a surge in Emirati military shipments to the RSF since last spring. These included Chinese \u201cRainbow\u201d-series drones, light and heavy weapons, vehicles, artillery, mortars, and ammunition.<\/p>\n

The paper noted the paradox of the UAE \u2014 a close U.S. partner and broker of the Abraham Accords \u2014 playing a peacemaking role in some conflicts while simultaneously arming combatants when it serves its interests. Abu Dhabi, it said, intervened militarily in Yemen against the Houthis and supplied arms to a Russian-backed warlord in Libya before now funneling weapons into Sudan after the RSF\u2019s loss of Khartoum in March.<\/p>\n

American officials told the Journal the Emirati arms flow helped the RSF rebound and relaunch offensives that produced some of the war\u2019s worst devastation. \u201cThis war would have ended without the UAE,\u201d said Cameron Hudson, a former chief of staff to several U.S. envoys to Sudan. \u201cThe only thing keeping the RSF in the fight is the massive military support they\u2019re getting from Abu Dhabi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Libyan, Egyptian, and European officials corroborated reports of expanded Emirati arms shipments. The UAE\u2019s Foreign Ministry \u201cstrongly rejected\u201d the accusations, calling them \u201cbaseless,\u201d while an RSF spokesperson dismissed them as \u201cgovernment propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Washington has stopped short of directly accusing Abu Dhabi, it has condemned foreign arms supplies to Sudan\u2019s warring sides and reiterated its commitment to a lasting peace and a cease-fire.<\/p>\n

The Journal added that the UAE\u2019s backing of the RSF aligns with its strategic and economic interests: Sudan\u2019s Red Sea coastline, a canceled $6-billion Emirati port project, and massive gold reserves \u2014 much of which historically flows to Dubai. After the RSF\u2019s setbacks, U.S. intelligence reportedly tracked renewed Emirati arms transfers through Somalia and Libya, including Chinese CH-95 drones capable of precision strikes and 24-hour surveillance.<\/p>\n

According to the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, drones matching these specifications were seen flying over Darfur during the RSF\u2019s latest offensive. The UAE had previously sent arms shipments to Sudan via Chad under the guise of humanitarian aid, the paper recalled.<\/p>\n

Recent months have seen intensified airlifts through Somalia and Libya, followed by overland routes into Sudan, U.S. and European officials said. These supplies, they added, have emboldened the RSF, enabling it to tighten its siege of El Fasher, build an earthen barrier around the city, and cut off food and humanitarian access \u2014 deepening a catastrophe the world still struggles to halt.<\/p>\n

Source: Mowatinoun<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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