{"id":56754,"date":"2025-11-04T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56754"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:46:00","slug":"the-sudan-massacre-the-price-of-a-new-colonial-race-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/the-sudan-massacre-the-price-of-a-new-colonial-race-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sudan Massacre: The Price of a New Colonial Race for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A brutal war today serves the ambitions of Gulf powers and emerging nations competing for control over ports, gold, and regional influence.<\/p>\n

There is a chilling pattern in how atrocities unfold.
\nIt starts with warnings \u2014 often ignored \u2014 that something horrific is happening. Then come scattered reports describing horrors too extreme to believe. Over time, individual testimonies turn into an undeniable flood of evidence. Finally, come the images, satellite photos, and videos on social media \u2014 each confirming the unimaginable.<\/p>\n

Such is the case in El Fasher, Sudan.<\/p>\n

After the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the city on Sunday, communications with civilians were cut off. Observers were left only with satellite imagery and footage posted by the attackers themselves.
\nThat alone was enough.<\/p>\n

Satellite images show bloodstains and bodies scattered across the desert around the city, while videos depict armed men inside a looted hospital, its corridors filled with corpses. One clip shows a wounded man being shot at point-blank range before the camera pans to a courtyard strewn with bodies.<\/p>\n

According to the World Health Organization, 460 patients and caregivers were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. The Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Union described the site as a \u201chuman slaughterhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened in El Fasher is like Genghis Khan\u2019s army storming a besieged city and slaughtering its people,\u201d
\nsaid Will Brown, Africa analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n

The tragedy is even starker when recalling that El Fasher once hosted world leaders \u2014 Colin Powell, Kofi Annan, David Cameron, Jack Straw, and even George Clooney \u2014 who came to condemn the Janjaweed genocide two decades ago.<\/p>\n

Those militias have since evolved into the RSF.
\nAnd this time, no one is coming to stop them.<\/p>\n

A Repetition of Genocide \u2014 With Modern Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Ahmed Soliman of Chatham House, the El Fasher massacre reflects the broader pattern of the RSF\u2013army conflict since 2023: a war without rules, with no protection for civilians or prisoners. It is, he said, a horrifying repetition of the Darfur genocide of 2003 \u2014 the same Janjaweed, the same victims, only a different context.<\/p>\n

Sheena Lewis of Avaaz adds: \u201cThese are not isolated abuses. They are systematic policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Witnesses to the Zamzam Camp massacre near El Fasher in April reported that RSF fighters openly declared they would \u201ccleanse El Fasher of the Zaghawa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not a Civil War \u2014 But a Proxy One<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not a war of Africans against Africans. It is a proxy conflict involving Middle Eastern powers.<\/p>\n

The Sudanese army is backed by Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and possibly Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n

The RSF, meanwhile, enjoys support from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) \u2014 despite repeated denials.<\/p>\n

The United Nations has described reports of Emirati backing as \u201ccredible.\u201d
\nThe Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. intelligence, said the UAE has supplied the RSF with Chinese-made drones and ammunition.<\/p>\n

Supply routes through Libya, Chad, and Somalia appear to have been established ahead of a large-scale offensive that began in El Fasher.<\/p>\n

A Sudanese analyst put it bluntly: \u201cThe UAE never explains its strategy \u2014 as if it\u2019s doing it for sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet its motives are clear:<\/p>\n

To counter Islamist influence in Sudan<\/p>\n

To secure gold and other natural resources<\/p>\n

To ensure food security, viewing Sudan as a potential breadbasket for the Gulf<\/p>\n

And to build a sphere of influence stretching from Libya to the Red Sea and Central Africa<\/p>\n

The UAE is now one of Africa\u2019s largest investors, with $110 billion in commitments.
\nDP World, its global ports operator, manages or develops terminals across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

The West\u2019s Absence from the \u201cNew Scramble for Africa\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s landscape resembles a new colonial scramble for Africa \u2014 but this time led by mid-level powers, not the traditional Western empires.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s or early 2000s, a genocide of this scale would have sparked outrage and intervention from London and Washington.
\nToday, humanitarian intervention isn\u2019t even part of the debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not even on the political agenda anymore,\u201d says Brown.<\/p>\n

Although the West still has leverage \u2014 such as halting arms sales to the UAE \u2014 attention is fixed elsewhere: Gaza, Ukraine, and China.<\/p>\n

Until the world acts, the killing will go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies A brutal war today serves the ambitions of Gulf powers and emerging nations competing for control over ports, gold, and regional influence. There is a chilling pattern in how atrocities unfold. It starts with warnings \u2014 often ignored \u2014 that something horrific is happening. Then come scattered reports describing horrors too …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56756,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions\/56756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}