'Not a proxy war': Sudan conflict 'would not go on like this' without international support

Pospisil says the siege has been ongoing for almost a year, with the RSF appearing determined to seize el-Obeid. While he argues that Sudan’s civil war is not a proxy war in the strict sense, he also makes clear that “without international support, the war would not go on like this.” Yet none of the external actors involved, whether the UAE, which supplies arms to the RSF, or the US and Saudi Arabia, has the leverage to bring the warring parties to a ceasefire, let alone a negotiated settlement.