Sudan’s civil war is entering an even more dangerous phase as the wider Middle East crisis drives up fuel and fertilizer prices, threatening the country’s next harvest.
The impact is devastating because Sudan was already facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Nearly 19.5 million people are facing crisis-level hunger, while conflict has damaged farming regions, disrupted supply chains and weakened state support for agriculture.
This is how regional wars become global humanitarian crises. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the RSF has destroyed internal stability. But external shocks, fuel prices, shipping disruption, fertilizer shortages and insecurity across the Red Sea and Gulf routes, now threaten to deepen famine conditions.
For diplomats, Sudan is no longer only an African conflict. It is part of a wider chain of instability stretching from the Gulf to the Red Sea, the Sahel and East Africa.
