Your editorial (15 May) is right to state that there is no more time to be lost in stopping Sudan’s civil war, but exactly how this should be achieved is not explained. Even if the security council had an appetite for reviving Unamid, the hybrid UN/African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur that was closed in 2020, it would be no more effective than its predecessor, itself an expensive spectator to the violent clearances of peasant farmers in Darfur. But as there is no international political will for such military gestures, what is to be done?
After decades of marginalisation, Sudan’s pastoralist herders started hitting back in 2003, destroying peasant farmers’ villages and converting the most favoured agricultural zones in Sudan into gigantic militarised ranches.
