Why is the UAE Fueling Sudan's Apocalyptic War?

By most measures it is the worst war happening anywhere in the world. Since fighting erupted between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces in April 2023, Sudan hasn't just plunged into the abyss, but already hit the bottom, and then continued tunneling down through the bedrock.

For regular viewers, the statistics are going to be oh so grimly familiar, the estimated 150,000 dead, the 12 million displaced, the cities sacked and burned, the famine stalking the land, the ethnic cleansing underway in Darfur, all of it adding up to a portrait of hell on earth.

Yet while the conflict in Sudan is a civil war, it's not the Sudanese themselves who are sustaining it. Rather, the war in combatants are being kept awash in gold and weapons by outside forces, Egypt, Qatar, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the Houthis. There's no shortage of outside powers willing to pour gasoline onto this African inferno.