For several years now, armed conflicts of indescribable proportions have been raging in Sudan. International aid organisations are at their wits’ end in the face of the mass suffering. All attempts to end the killing have so far failed. Clearly, there is much to be gained for the masterminds and profiteers of the war.

To euphemistically refer to this conflict in Sudan – which the UN has described as ‘the greatest humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War’ – as a ‘civil war’ is a particularly deceitful euphemism. For the mass slaughter that has been raging in this African country since 2023 – with tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands starving and millions displaced – is a particularly cruel example of boundless greed for power and profit, of racism of the worst kind, and of unprecedented ignorance on the part of the world’s rich nations. Yet the war did not descend upon the north-east of the African continent like a sudden natural disaster; rather, it has a long history, extensively documented by historians. The author of this text even associates the start of his journalistic career with it.