For those who don’t know about the Sudan conflict, I’ll briefly explain: two groups are fighting in Sudan — one is the Sudanese army, and the other is the Rapid Support Forces (Quwat Daam al-Saree‘), which has rebelled against the army. It’s like if Pakistan’s Frontier Corps rose up against the Pakistan Army and the two began fighting.
This war began in 2023 when the Sudanese army ordered its political partner, Daam al-Saree‘, to fully integrate into the army — first as a warning, then by force — and when the attempt to compel them failed, fighting broke out. It’s similar to a hypothetical situation where the current Jolani regime tells the Kurds’ SDF to become part of the army and they refuse.
Egypt and Turkey are supporting the Sudanese army, while the United Arab Emirates openly backs the opposing Rapid Support Forces, supplying them with mercenaries and weapons.
Saudi Arabia leans toward the Sudanese army but also maintains ties with the opposing group.
Russia initially supported the opposing group with promises of access to gold, then reversed course and sided with the Sudanese army — after promises to build a port.
Many other countries have secret or overt ties to both sides. Behind all this are the underground veins of gold and other fixed natural resources in Sudan.
Sudan ranks among the world’s top ten countries by gold reserves, and during this wartime environment the UAE is smuggling out large quantities of gold from areas under its militia allies’ control.
Meanwhile, the poor people of Sudan are having their blood poured out like water. Women are raped and then killed; children are riddled with bullets in their mothers’ arms. Ironically, both sides shout “Allahu Akbar” while carrying out massacres.
I have always said that the greatest harm to this Ummah has been done by these proxies and groups that foreign countries arm and set to fight like warfowl, while the local Muslims are trampled in between. This started with the Afghan war against Russia when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and others deployed proxies against Russia and tasked Pakistan’s ISI with training and support — calling it jihad. Later those proxies waged such jihad against each other — may God protect us.
Then Pakistan, in order to dismantle those proxies and restore peace, deployed its own proxy in the form of the Taliban under Mullah Omar — and since then this game in the region has not ended.
The same applies to all Islamic regions: in Mali, Algeria and France used Al-Qaeda as a proxy; Russia and Turkey have their warfowl in the Malian army and they confront each other. In Somalia, Ethiopia is using fighters to battle al-Shabab from Somali territory; in Libya, Turkey, the Emirates, Egypt, and Algeria have their proxies and have divided areas among themselves and are fighting.
May Allah have mercy on this Ummah and remove these organizations and proxies, and gather this Ummah under one Imam, one flag, and one caliphate. Ameen.
