Sudan: Resetting the Political Calculus of the Sudan Conflict

A resolution of the Sudan conflict will require raising the financial and reputational costs of the regional actors who are fueling the conflict while ensuring the interests of each are recognized under a unified, sovereign Sudan.

The U.S. State Department’s January 2025 determination that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary force in Sudan was responsible for genocide was greeted by observers as less of a revelation than as a truism.

An investigation by a United Nations Panel of Experts a…