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Could the US have done anything better on Sudan?

By Daniel DePetris

Published May 11, 2023 12:00pm ET

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Could the US have done anything better on Sudan? — A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia to try to pull Africa's third-largest nation from the abyss. | (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

For the last four weeks, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been a war zone. Its residents have been scrambling for the most basic items, just trying to survive another day. The city is now carved up between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. Medicine is in short supply, garbage is piling up, gas prices are sky-high, and RSF fighters are harassing people on the streets.

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