Sudan mirrors politics of grievability

World lives with African death without feeling implicated by it

- ALI RIDHA KHAN

SUDAN is not a crisis — it is a revelation. It is the mirror no one wants to look into, showing us what the world becomes when power sheds its old costumes and violence finds new investors.

From Khartoum!s charred skyline to the mass graves of El Fasher, Sudan is where the empire updates its software and humanity glitches.

To call this merely a “civil war” is to participate in misrecognition. Sudan is the front line of a new imperial order: not built on flags, missions, or manifest destiny, but on ports, drones, logistics platforms, and gold smuggling routes.

If the twentieth-century empire arrived with gunboats and civilising myths, the twenty-first arrives through private equity, military-logistics corridors, and humanitarian press releases.

The United Arab Emirates — financier, arms courier, port developer, geopolitical whisperer - is the prototype. Its fingerprints are all over Sudan's agony, not through speeches but through shipments, bank transfers, and mercenary flows.

This is platform imperialism: power without pretense, extraction without ideology. No gospel of democracy, no civilizing rhetoric — just the cold grammar of corridors and commodities.

Sudanese gold pulled through Dubai; RSF fighters trained and paid as proxy muscle; diplomatic neutrality paired with arms shipments routed through Chad. A war economy disguised as statecraft.