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2023-05-08 Africa Horn

As’ad AbuKhalkil: Who Is Fighting Whom in Sudan?

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Posted by badanov 2023-05-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Sudan

#1 Frankly, for more than fifty years the US has hoped the Sudan would just disappear: From 1967 to 1972 the embassy was closed. In 1973 Ambassador Cleo Noel was killed in a Black September attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum. From 1991-96 the embassy paid little attention to the presence of Osama Bin Laden and the growth of Al Qaeda. Fearing an attack, the embassy was again closed in 1996 by Susan Rice. It Reopened in 2002, and until 2022 the DofState posted a sequence of innocuous chargés d'affaires ad interim to the country. An Ambassador was only resumed in 2022 with John Godfrey. Now he has been evacuated.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-08 09:05|| 2023-05-08 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Who is fighting?

Another US Proxy vs. Russian Proxy.

Posted by mossomo 2023-05-08 13:28|| 2023-05-08 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Mossomo you've got to understand how deep and how pernicious are the ethnic and religious hatreds in the Sudan. On the one hand there are the Rizayqat Arabs of western Sudan -- Arab is laughable, African is more like it, but they paid good money to geneologists to prove their relation to Arabia. They are pitted pitted against the Nile river Arabs (who are just a shade lighter) who feel they own the impoverished expanse of African landscape. The battle right now is over who will run the country, and who will benefit financially pinching pennies from beggars' cups.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-08 19:15|| 2023-05-08 19:15|| Front Page Top

#4 pretty obviously, as a white MAGA Republican, it's my fault

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-08 19:56|| 2023-05-08 19:56|| Front Page Top

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