Sudan continues to sink into chaos after the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in 2023. The war has killed more than 150,000 people and forced millions more to flee.

Around 25 million Sudanese suffer from extreme food shortages. The country faces one of the most severe hunger crises in the world.

According to the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), the conflict in Sudan is not a mere clash between local forces. The US intervenes aiming to control not only the Sudanese government but also the country’s mineral wealth.

The US pits the RSF and SAF against each other through its Middle East allies. It works in partnership with the Zionist Israel intelligence agency Mossad in training the RSF. The US foments the conflict to weaken the unity of African and Arab countries and to maintain its control over the region’s natural resources, especially gold and oil. The US also allows its puppets in the Middle East to profit from arms sales to both sides.

According to the ILPS, the US bears the main responsibility for the crisis and genocide-level violence in Sudan.

“The crisis in Sudan mirrors earlier imperialist interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria,” it said. These are similar to wars waged in the name of democracy but actually serve the interests of the US and its allied countries. This is part of the broader campaign by the US and its allies to divide and control countries in Africa and West Asia. Included in this are the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the assaults on Yemen and Palestine, all of which attack the peoples’ right to self-determination.