Sudan Is Crumbling

While the world focuses on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Sudan’s ongoing civil war continues to wreak destruction. Resistance forces have now attacked refugee camps in Sudan’s western Darfur region. “The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries.” As one Oxfam manager observed, Sudan is “the largest humanitarian crisis, largest displacement crisis, largest hunger crisis… It’s breaking all sorts of wrong records.” Nearly half of Sudan’s population does not have enough food, and the war has devastated the nation’s infrastructure (The Guardian, April 15, 2025).

Sudan’s civil war goes back to 2019, when an army general combined forces with a tribal warlord to oust the country’s corrupt leader. Two years later, they combined forces again to overthrow the civilian administration set up to transition Sudan to a democratic government. As one might expect, it was not long before the forces of the two leaders began fighting each other.

The Apostle James asked and answered a profound question: “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war” (James 4:1–2). As peoples and nations focus on self-centered desires instead of the righteousness of the God of the Bible, wars, fights, and their devastating consequences naturally follow. Sadly, wars will not cease until such leaders deny themselves and begin looking to God. But thankfully, this will happen in the not-too-distant future! To learn more, watch “The End of War.”