The presence of Colombian mercenaries in Sudan, hired through British-registered companies and linked to Emirati power networks, exposes the war for what it truly is: not a personal feud between rival generals, but a fully internationalized conflict embedded in global systems of militarization, outsourcing, and imperial management. Framing Sudan’s catastrophe as an internal power struggle creates a deliberate illusion, obscuring the external actors driving genocide and mass killings.
Today, most conflicts across the African continent are shaped by a wider system of imperial intervention and regional alliances, operating through arms transfers, political patronage, and the reproduction of indirect forms of domination. Sudan represents a stark manifestation of this structure, as an entire society is being pushed toward large-scale destruction and mass death within a conflict that advances a UAE-led colonial project, protected by several Western states, and aimed at restructuring political and economic space to serve transnational interests.