For more than two years, Sudan has been torn apart by a war that neither its people started nor wanted. Entire neighborhoods in Khartoum have been reduced to rubble. Families in Darfur have been hunted because of their ethnicity. Children have starved in cities where food once flowed freely. And through it all, one truth stands out with painful clarity: this war is being kept alive by those who continue to supply the tools of death.

Sudan’s civilians are not dying because the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are exceptionally powerful. They are dying because foreign forces keep putting weapons, drones, ammunition, and surveillance systems into the hands of misguided men who have shown no restraint and no regard for human life.

What’s happening in Sudan is a moral failure that extends far beyond Sudan’s borders. Not one bullet fired in Omdurman, not one drone strike in Wad Madani, and not one surveillance sweep used to hunt civilians in Darfur are homegrown tools. They come from foreign governments seeking influence, private companies chasing profit, arms brokers who thrive in chaos, and smuggling networks that treat human suffering as a business model.

Chances are, the arms merchants supplying tools of death will probably never set foot in Sudan. They may never see the bodies left behind after an airstrike or hear the cries of a mother searching for her missing child. But their fingerprints are all over these atrocities.

When foreign-made drones are used to target a marketplace, the manufacturers cannot pretend to be innocent. When a government knowingly allows weapons to be diverted into a conflict zone, it cannot claim neutrality. When a broker sells surveillance tools to a militia with a history of ethnic cleansing, they cannot hide behind “commercial transactions. Morality does not disappear simply because a contract was signed.

Sudanese civilians have paid the highest price for the greed, heartlessness, and indifference of others. Families are displaced again and again as frontlines shift. Women and girls are subjected to repeated systematic sexual violence, and entire communities are wiped out in Darfur.

Hospitals are bombed, looted, and, most of the time, turned into military bases. Children are dying of hunger in a country that once fed its neighbors. These are not “collateral damages, they are the predictable consequences of flooding a fragile nation with weapons and surveillance used specifically for killing. Some suppliers hide behind legal loopholes. Some claim they didn’t know where their weapons would end up. Some insist they are not responsible for how their products are used.

The Sudan conflict is well-documented, and both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces have been repeatedly accused of war crimes, while foreign weapon pushers continue to supply them, which is not ignorance. It is complicity. The world cannot claim to care about human rights while allowing the Sudanese people to be slaughtered with imported tools of war.

Sudan does not need more weapons. It needs the Military Industrial Complex to stop sending them. At its core, this is not a geopolitical issue. It is not a regional rivalry. It is not a business opportunity for greedy blood suckers.

Anyone who continues to arm the perpetrators of the suffering of the Sudanese people has stepped decisively onto the wrong side of history. The Sudanese people deserve peace, dignity, and a world that values their lives more than the profits of war. Until the suppliers of weapons of death are held accountable, the cycle of violence will continue, and so will the moral stain on those who enable it. Science by the global community is not a strategy.

In closing, what is needed is not polite concern; it is accountability. The global community must demand stricter enforcement of arms embargoes, transparency in corporate arms supply chains, severe sanctions on arms brokers and intermediaries, International pressure on states enabling the conflict, and a global commitment to stop feeding the fire. Please join me in calling for the protection of global humanity and lasting peace for the Sudanese people…

©Mansour Id-Deen – 02/19/2026