Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of policymakers working on the various regional contexts of which the country is a component, whether the Red Sea, the Sahel or the Horn of Africa.
Sudan’s strategic location, natural resources, vast arable land and importance for the trajectory of the region makes its conflict deeply geopolitical. It has drawn direct engagement from great powers like Russia and the United States, and from Sahelian and Horn actors such as Chad, Ethiopia and Libya. Yet, it is Arabian Gulf states—namely Qatar, Saudi Arabia and, significantly, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—that have the greatest capacity to influence the conflict’s outcome.
Continue reading HERE
Source: https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-falcons-and-the-secretary-bird-arab-gulf-states-in-sudans-war/
[Disclaimer]
