London Hosts Peace Conference Tomorrow, as Sudan Enters Third Year of Civil War

Experts at The Sentry spotlight the role of UAE and other foreign states in fueling the conflict, and are available for comment and analysis

April 14, 2025 (London and Washington, DC) – Tomorrow, London will co-host with Germany and France a global conference on the devastating civil war in Sudan. More than twenty senior diplomats and foreign ministers along with senior civil society leaders will convene to discuss approaches to end the conflict.

The conference is timed to mark the second-year anniversary of Sudan’s civil war, which has unleashed unprecedented famine conditions, killed thousands of people, and forced millions to flee their homes and communities.

The conference comes on the heels of a massacre by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of the entire staff of the last medical clinic in a famine-stricken camp in Darfur, Sudan, and a wider assault that killed at least 100 people.

John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry, said: “To hold a conference simply focused on humanitarian band aids while the RSF and Sudanese military continue their brutal war against each other and against Sudanese civilians is incomplete. Governments around the world need to call out the United Arab Emirates for its ongoing support of the RSF and its deadly offensives, and do the same with Egypt and Saudi Arabia for their support of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Bringing these regional powers together to negotiate an end to their support and imposing significant financial and legal accountability measures on those who continue to stoke the violence is needed in parallel to expanded humanitarian assistance.”

Oliver Windridge, Senior Policy Director UK & EU, said: “Tomorrow’s Sudan conference will be bittersweet for millions of Sudanese. Having been largely ignored by the international community to date, it promises to shine a sliver of light on the horrific situation in Sudan. But it will do little to deliver peace to the millions displaced and living in fear without real attempts to target the drivers of this conflict, in particular the international financing of both sides of this harrowing conflict.”

Read the op-ed in Foreign Affairs by John Prendergast and Anthony Lake, “The UAE’s Secret War in Sudan How International Pressure Can Stop the Genocidal Violence”: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/uaes-secret-war-sudan

Read the op-ed in USA Today by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle, “Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening”: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/04/29/sudan-war-hunger-humanitarian-crisis-darfur-genocide/73353007007/

Experts at The Sentry are available for further comment and analysis. Please contact: Greg Hittelman, Director of Communications, [email protected]

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