For three years, ceasefires have been ignored and we have descended back into chaos. Now there is a credible plan for peace on the table
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reedom, peace and justice. Three words that united the Sudanese people and became the banner under which 30 years of dictatorship was brought to an end. An era of corruption, religious extremism, repression and conflict was over.
I did not think that seven years on from the glorious December revolution, our nation would be on the edge of irreversible collapse. Three years of senseless violence have pushed Sudan to the brink. The country is engulfed in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. And for what?
Africa’s third-largest country laid waste by warmongers so intoxicated by the prospect of power that the suffering of the Sudanese people means nothing to them. Those who weaponise starvation or use chemical weapons against their own people are not the ones to bring us freedom. The recent attacks on civilian targets in East Darfur and North Kordofan should make that painfully clear.
