The year ends without resolution.
What remains is a long list of things the world chose to tolerate: more than 18,457 children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza; a two-and-a-half-year war devastating Sudan, trapping it in a cycle of violence; only 6.6% of the world’s population living under full democracies; and fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of humanity – holding three times the wealth of the entire bottom half of the global population.
In Ukraine, Russia’s war drags into its fourth year.
Some crises demand explanation. Others disappear through neglect. Sudan, Haiti, and Congo belonged to the second category.
It isn’t exactly clear why Sudan slipped from attention. Was it the speed of the smartphone scroll, where suffering must compete with novelty? Was it familiarity, shaped by racialised assumptions that conflict in Africa is cyclical, local, unsurprising? Or was it power deciding what qualifies as urgency?
The question is not only why Sudan received fewer headlines, but who benefits from that silence. In Sudan’s case, the answer can be measured in gold.
The United Arab Emirates, the gold digger in this conflict, has supplied weapons to the Rapid Support Forces militia, a fact documented by several United Nations and other international agencies.
Sudan is facing the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis, with more than 9.5 million people displaced across all 18…
Source: 2025: A year without alibis
