The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders
Fighting in the desert between Libya and Egypt will make the conflict even harder to end

When the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, in March, some of the army’s supporters thought its victory was near. Some of the more than 14m Sudanese displaced by the war have begun returning home. The rest of the world is paying little attention to a humanitarian disaster in the country of 50m people.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Misery, expanded”

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