2026-09-28T18:15:22-04:00 / 福克斯新闻
联合国电 — 在美国拒绝苏丹军事领导人出席联合国大会的签证申请后，他公开违抗美国支持的停火倡议，这暴露出围绕这场战争的裂痕日益扩大。这场战争不仅是全球最严重的人道主义灾难之一，也是一场延伸至红海的地区影响力争夺。
苏丹武装部队总司令、事实上的领导人阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·布尔汉将军原本预计会在联大会议期间前往纽约，但特朗普政府因一项为期90天的人道主义停火提议引发的争端，拒绝向他发放签证。几天后，布尔汉在喀土穆发表了 defiant 表态。
“我们将昂首挺胸。我们不会接受讨价还价，不会向任何人卑躬屈膝、贱卖自己，”布尔汉周六对阿纳多卢通讯社表示。“我们不需要任何国家的签证，也不需要任何人的许可。”
世界各国领导人齐聚纽约出席联大——但谁真正能影响美国的决策？
苏丹武装部队总司令阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·布尔汉2025年3月26日在苏丹首都喀土穆的总统宫内向士兵致意，当时苏丹军方表示已控制该建筑。（苏丹过渡主权委员会/路透社供图）
美国国务院指责布尔汉领导的苏丹武装部队（SAF）及其竞争对手、准军事组织快速支援部队（RSF）都未就立即停火做出严肃承诺。
“无论是苏丹武装部队、快速支援部队，还是它们各自的领导人，都不代表苏丹合法的宪政政府，”美国国务院发言人汤米·皮戈特9月22日表示，并补充称两位领导人的行为使其“无资格治理国家”。
美国国务院称，双方反而加强了作战行动和无人机袭击，造成平民伤亡，并表示华盛顿已多次要求他们“无条件”接受人道主义停火，并承诺开展包容性政治对话，以组建文官政府。
但布尔汉的一名高级顾问在联大会议期间接受福克斯新闻数字频道的镜头采访时，驳斥了华盛顿的说法。
被遗忘的苏丹战争导致数百万人挨饿，全球注意力却转向别处
2025年8月23日，苏丹士兵在首都喀土穆参加军事游行，纪念穆斯林先知穆罕默德诞辰。（易卜拉欣·哈米德 法新社/盖蒂图片社）
苏丹过渡主权委员会外交事务顾问阿姆贾德·法里德·阿尔-泰伊卜博士表示，苏丹从未拒绝美国的停火提议，只是提交了技术层面的意见。
“我们从未拒绝这项提议，”法里德说。“苏丹政府不想与任何人开战。”
法里德表示，一个谈判团队原本计划陪同布尔汉出行，并指责华盛顿阻止代表团出行，破坏了其本应推动的外交进程。
美国国务院拒绝就布尔汉的具体签证案件置评，称其政策不讨论个别签证决定。一位不愿透露姓名的国务院发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，华盛顿目前正通过“四方机制”与埃及、沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋合作，制定更广泛的外交框架，将人道主义停火、持续的人道主义准入与永久停火、文官过渡和重建挂钩。
“我们正与合作伙伴共同努力，鼓励各方同意人道主义停火，保障人道主义准入，并确保切断外部向交战方提供的军事或财政支持，”该发言人说。
该发言人补充称，四方机制支持由五方集团主导的文官政治进程，并反对可能使谈判碎片化的平行外交进程。
联合国也对美国的签证决定提出了质疑。“我们立即向美国当局提出了关于苏丹过渡主权委员会主席签证被拒的问题，他原定于本周在联大发表讲话，”联合国秘书长发言人斯特凡纳·迪雅里克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
普京将非洲作为乌克兰战争的“钱包”，而美国却面临“情报黑洞”：指挥官
曾担任美国国家安全委员会非洲事务主任、并先后担任多任美国总统苏丹问题特使幕僚长的卡梅伦·哈德森表示，据他了解，华盛顿曾要求苏丹派遣代表团前往联合国和华盛顿参加停火谈判。
他说，据他了解，苏丹方面原本准备成行，但华盛顿将布尔汉获得签证的条件设定为在出行前签署停火协议。
“美国在最后一刻做出这个决定，完全说不通，”哈德森告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
2024年7月24日，在饱受战争蹂躏的苏丹港，武装人员向红海州州长穆斯塔法·马哈茂德致敬。自2023年4月陆军总司令阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·布尔汉领导的部队与他的前副手穆罕默德·哈姆丹·达格洛领导的快速支援部队爆发冲突以来，苏丹一直陷入战争。这个拥有4800万人口的国家的冲突已造成数万人死亡、数百万人流离失所，并引发了全球最严重的人道主义危机之一。（法新社/盖蒂图片社）
法里德表示，核心争端在于快速支援部队是否需要从其控制的平民区撤离。他认为，冻结当前的控制线可能会将临时停火变成事实上的苏丹分裂。
这场争端的背景是2023年4月布尔汉与快速支援部队指挥官穆罕默德·哈姆丹·达格洛（广为人知的赫梅蒂）之间的权力斗争引发的残酷内战。
双方都被指控犯下严重暴行，但哈德森告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，将双方的记录混为一谈掩盖了一个重要区别。
“快速支援部队所犯下的战争罪规模和意图，都是陆军所没有的，”哈德森说。
哈德森表示，苏丹武装部队也袭击了平民目标，犯下了包括无人机袭击在内的战争罪，但快速支援部队的记录要严重得多。
“他们犯下了大规模强奸、大规模杀戮、酷刑、性奴役，”哈德森说，他认为西方将双方描述为“同等”，会让人产生这两支力量“以同样规模或同样意图”犯下相同罪行的印象。
联合国调查人员在记录双方暴行的同时，也做出了区分。
当世界聚焦其他战争时，苏丹已有1200万人被迫流离失所，冲突造成毁灭性后果
2026年5月20日，苏丹武装人民抵抗力量的成员在东部加达里夫州参加新毕业生军事游行。（法新社/盖蒂图片社）
联合国事实调查团2025年9月的报告显示，苏丹武装部队和快速支援部队都对平民发动了直接的大规模袭击，并破坏了关键的民用基础设施。但报告发现，快速支援部队，特别是在围攻法希尔及其周边地区期间，犯下了危害人类罪，包括谋杀、酷刑、奴役、强奸、性奴役、强迫流离失所以及基于种族、性别和政治理由的迫害。
联合国人权事务高级专员办事处2月发布的另一份报告显示，快速支援部队对法希尔发动的最后攻势头三天内就有超过6000人被杀，并发现这些暴行可能构成战争罪和危害人类罪。
尽管如此，法里德指责联合国和西方政府在苏丹军方与快速支援部队之间制造了他所谓的“虚假对等”。
“联合国没有保持中立，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，并称国际机构虽然记录了快速支援部队的暴行，但没有对该组织及其支持者采取足够行动。
法里德重申了他的指责，称联合国和西方政府在苏丹军方与快速支援部队之间制造了虚假对等。
联合国秘书长发言人斯特凡纳·迪雅里克驳斥了该组织将双方等同起来的指控。“这不是要将双方等同起来，”迪雅里克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我们关注的是事实、已记录的暴行，最重要的是，自2023年4月15日以来这场战争给平民带来的毁灭性代价。”
迪雅里克表示，快速支援部队和苏丹武装部队都在人口稠密地区使用爆炸性武器，联合国人权事务高级专员办事处已记录了针对学校、医院、市场和宗教场所的袭击。
他特别指出了快速支援部队及其附属部队在达尔富尔地区犯下的“特别严重的暴行”，包括大规模杀戮、性暴力、酷刑、绑架和强迫流离失所，同时也指出在苏丹武装部队控制的地区也记录到了严重暴行，包括任意拘留、酷刑、虐待和即决处决。
与此同时，战争的影响越来越多地超出了苏丹边境。
外国支持已成为这场冲突的核心特征。英国政府2026年7月的一份评估报告援引联合国和其他报道称，快速支援部队受益于阿联酋和周边国家的支持网络，而苏丹武装部队则得到了埃及、伊朗、巴基斯坦和土耳其等国的支持。阿联酋多次否认向快速支援部队提供军事支持。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系阿联酋驻华盛顿大使馆和阿联酋驻联合国代表团，但在发稿前未收到回复。
曼德海峡面临日益严重的威胁，胡塞袭击引发对第二个霍尔木兹海峡的担忧
2025年11月22日，在乍得东部蒂内边境口岸，一名来自法希尔的苏丹难民父亲与家人乘坐机动马车，在准军事快速支援部队与苏丹军队之间持续冲突期间往返于乍得和苏丹之间。（阿姆鲁·阿卜杜拉·达尔什/路透社）
哈德森表示，快速支援部队的外国关系只是更大范围的地区竞争的一部分。
他说，埃及、土耳其、沙特阿拉伯、巴基斯坦和卡塔尔都在不同程度上支持苏丹军队，而外部大国则在苏丹追求自身的战略利益。
这种竞争越来越集中在苏丹的红海海岸线。“周边国家和地区国家之间存在一场影响力争夺战，它们都希望能够控制苏丹的红海海岸线，”哈德森说，并指出这涉及潜在的军事、港口和经济准入。
“苏丹境内的冲突之上，叠加着一场为争夺苏丹和更广泛的非洲之角、红海地区影响力的地区代理冲突，”他说。
美国国务卿马可·卢比奥也表示，外国势力是延长战争的核心因素。“如果没有外部势力支持一方或另一方，苏丹的情况就不会发生，”卢比奥在联大会议周期间告诉记者，并形容美国为争取哪怕是有限的人道主义协议所做的努力“非常令人沮丧”。
2026年7月16日，美国国务卿马可·卢比奥在华盛顿国务院举行的关于政治暴力的部长级会议开始时发表讲话。（乔纳森·恩斯特/路透社）
卢比奥表示，各方多次同意承诺，但当一方认为自己占据上风时就会背弃承诺。“有外部势力。我不会点名道姓，你们都知道他们是谁，”卢比奥说。“如果没有外部势力积极参与，向冲突的一方或另一方提供支持，这场战争、这场冲突和这场危机就不会发生。”
他表示，取得有意义的进展将取决于这些国家向其在苏丹的各自代理人施压。
“除非这些外部势力准备动用影响力和压力，迫使各自的代理人兑现他们做出的承诺，否则我们不会取得进展，”卢比奥说。
全球人道主义系统濒临崩溃，“不再符合宗旨”，美国研究人员称
2025年11月27日，在乍得东部瓦迪菲拉省伊里巴镇西北部的伊里迪难民营，逃离法希尔的33岁苏丹难民莫娜·穆罕默德在接受路透社采访时情绪激动，当时准军事快速支援部队与苏丹军队之间仍在持续冲突。（阿姆鲁·阿卜杜拉·达尔什/路透社）
苏丹的战略价值不仅在于地理位置。该国拥有丰富的黄金、农业和畜牧资源，地处非洲和中东的十字路口。世界银行将苏丹描述为拥有肥沃的土地、水资源和矿产资源，并指出其大量的黄金生产和农业潜力。
苏丹还控制着将南苏丹原油运往红海的关键基础设施。世界银行的一份评估报告显示，南苏丹的石油历史上通过管道经苏丹运往其主要出口口岸苏丹港。
哈德森表示，更广泛的地区竞争有助于解释为什么华盛顿难以迫使苏丹的外部支持者撤出支持。
“美国不会动用它在沙特阿拉伯、埃及、土耳其或阿联酋拥有的有限政治资本，来让它们控制对冲突一方或另一方的支持，”他说。
哈德森还质疑华盛顿的外交战略，认为对布尔汉的施压没有得到对苏丹境内的充分直接接触的配合。
他说，唐纳德·特朗普总统的阿拉伯和非洲事务高级顾问马萨德·布洛斯从未前往过苏丹，却试图调解这场冲突。
2025年11月3日，周一，唐纳德·特朗普总统的高级顾问马萨德·布洛斯在埃及开罗的美国大使馆接受美联社采访时发言。（阿姆鲁·纳比尔/美联社照片）
“他试图在一个他从未去过的国家调解和平，”哈德森说，他认为华盛顿需要更多的“个人外交”，减少对公开声明和社交媒体的依赖。
“如果我们希望这些人签署停火协议，那么他们必须信任我们，”哈德森说。“而现在，我们没有给他们任何理由这样做。”
2025年3月20日，在苏丹首都喀土穆及其周边地区，由于2023年4月爆发的持续战争，大多数医院和学校已无法运转，患者在喀土穆双子城奥姆杜尔曼的沙特医院的一个房间里接受治疗。据联合国数据，自2023年4月以来，这场冲突使陆军总司令阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·布尔汉与他的前副手、快速支援部队指挥官穆罕默德·哈姆丹·达格洛对峙，造成数千人死亡，1100多万人流离失所，许多人住在临时营地中，超过350万人逃离该国边境。（易卜拉欣·哈米德/法新社/盖蒂图片社）
联合国承认，国际社会迄今未能阻止战斗。“不幸的是，我们没有看到战争缓和，”迪雅里克说，并重申联合国的立场是“冲突没有军事解决方案”，并指出美国和非洲联盟共同主持了9月23日的会议，四方机制和五方集团的外交团体参与了此次会议。
“当务之急是停止杀戮，停止敌对行动，同时为可信的政治进程创造条件，”他说。
US visa clash exposes Sudan’s forgotten war as foreign powers compete for strategic foothold
2026-09-28T18:15:22-04:00 / Fox News
UNITED NATIONS — Sudan’s military leader is openly defying a U.S.-backed ceasefire push after Washington withheld his visa to attend the U.N. General Assembly, exposing a widening rift over a war that has become not only one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, but also a regional struggle for influence stretching to the Red Sea.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s armed forces and de facto leader, had been expected in New York during UNGA before the Trump administration withheld his visa amid a dispute over a proposed 90-day humanitarian truce. Days later, Burhan struck a defiant tone from Khartoum.
“We will keep our heads high. We will not accept bargaining, sell ourselves cheaply to anyone or bow to anyone,” Burhan said Saturday, according to Anadolu Agency. “We do not need a visa to any country or anyone’s permission.”
WORLD LEADERS DESCEND ON NEW YORK FOR UNGA — BUT WHO REALLY HAS AMERICA’S EAR?
Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace after the Sudanese army said it had taken control of the building, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan March 26, 2025.(Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council/Handout via Reuters)
The State Department has accused both Burhan’s Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, of failing to make serious commitments to an immediate truce.
“Neither the Sudanese Armed Forces, the Rapid Support Forces, nor their respective leaders, represent legitimate, constitutional governance for Sudan,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Sept. 22, adding that the conduct of both leaders renders them “ineligible to govern the country.”
The State Department said both sides had instead intensified combat operations and drone strikes that killed civilians and said Washington had repeatedly asked them to accept a humanitarian truce “without preconditions” and commit to an inclusive political dialogue leading to civilian government.
But a senior advisor to Burhan disputed Washington’s account in an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of UNGA.
SUDAN’S FORGOTTEN WAR LEAVES MILLIONS HUNGRY AS GLOBAL ATTENTION REMAINS ELSEWHERE
Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military parade as part of religious commemorations by Muslim devotees of the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Mohamed in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Aug. 23, 2025(Ebrahim Hamid AFP via Getty Images)
Dr. Amjad Farid Al-Tayyib, the foreign affairs advisor to Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, said Sudan never rejected the American ceasefire proposal and instead submitted technical comments on it.
“We never rejected this proposal,” Farid said. “The Sudanese government wants war with no one.”
Farid said a negotiating team had intended to accompany Burhan and accused Washington of undermining the very diplomatic process it was seeking to advance by preventing the delegation from traveling.
The State Department declined to comment on Burhan’s specific visa case, citing its policy of not discussing individual visa decisions. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital on background that Washington is instead focused on a broader diplomatic framework with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE through the Quad, linking a humanitarian truce and sustained aid access to a permanent ceasefire, civilian transition and reconstruction.
“We are working with our partners to encourage the parties to agree to the humanitarian truce and guarantee humanitarian access, and to also ensure external military or financial support to the warring parties is cut off,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that the Quad supports the Quintet-led civilian political track and rejects parallel diplomatic processes that could fragment negotiations.
The United Nations also challenged Washington over the visa decision. “We immediately raised with the U.S. authorities the issue regarding the denial of visa to the President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of the Sudan, who was scheduled to address the General Assembly this week,” U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told Fox News Digital.
PUTIN USING AFRICA AS ‘PURSE’ FOR UKRAINE WAR WHILE US FACES ‘INTELLIGENCE BLACK HOLE’: COMMANDER
Cameron Hudson, a former director for African affairs on the National Security Council who also served as chief of staff to successive U.S. presidential special envoys for Sudan, said his understanding was that Washington had asked the Sudanese to send a delegation both to the U.N. and to Washington for talks on a ceasefire.
He said the Sudanese were preparing to do so before Washington, in his understanding, made Burhan’s visa contingent on signing the ceasefire agreement before traveling.
“It doesn’t fully make sense why the United States took this decision at the last minute,” Hudson told Fox News Digital.
Armed men salute the governor of Sudan’s Red Sea State Mustafa Mahmud in Port Sudan in the war-torn country on July 24, 2024. Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The conflict in the country of 48 million has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.(AFP via Getty Images)
Farid said the central dispute is whether the RSF would be required to withdraw from civilian areas it controls. He argued that freezing current lines of control risks turning a temporary ceasefire into a de facto partition of Sudan.
The dispute comes against the backdrop of a brutal civil war that erupted in April 2023 following a power struggle between Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti.
Both sides have been accused of serious violations, but Hudson told Fox News Digital that treating their records as interchangeable obscures an important distinction.
“The RSF is committing war crimes on a scale and with an intention that the army does not,” Hudson said.
Hudson said SAF has struck civilian targets and committed war crimes, including through drone attacks, but said the RSF’s record goes significantly further.
“They have committed mass rape, mass killing, torture, sexual enslavement,” Hudson said, arguing that Western descriptions of “both sides” can create the impression that the two forces are committing the same crimes “on the same scale or with the same intention.”
U.N. investigators have also drawn distinctions while documenting abuses by both forces.
AS WORLD FIXATES ON OTHER WARS, SUDAN SEES 12 MILLION FORCIBLY DISPLACED IN DEVASTATING CONFLICT
Members of Sudanese Armed Popular Resistance Force take part in a military parade for fresh graduates, in Al-Qadarif state, in eastern Sudan on May 20, 2026.(AFP via Getty Images)
A U.N. fact-finding mission reported in September 2025 that both SAF and RSF were responsible for direct, large-scale attacks against civilians and the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure. But it found that the RSF, particularly during its siege of El Fasher and surrounding areas, committed crimes against humanity including murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, forced displacement and persecution on ethnic, gender and political grounds.
A separate U.N. Human Rights Office report released in February documented more than 6,000 killings during the first three days of the RSF’s final offensive on El Fasher and found that the violations could amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
Farid nevertheless accused the U.N. and Western governments of creating what he called a ‘false equivalence’ between Sudan’s military and the RSF.
“The U.N. is not staying neutral,” he told Fox News Digital, arguing that international institutions have documented RSF atrocities without taking sufficient action against the group or those supporting it.
Farid nevertheless accused the U.N. and Western governments of creating what he called a false equivalence between Sudan’s military and the RSF.
U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric rejected the allegation that the organization was equating the two sides. “This is not about equating two sides,” Dujarric told Fox News Digital. “We focus on the facts, the violations that have been documented, and above all, the devastating toll this war has taken on civilians since 15 April 2023.”
Dujarric said both the RSF and SAF have used explosive weapons in densely populated areas and that the U.N. Human Rights Office has documented attacks affecting schools, hospitals, markets and religious sites.
He pointed specifically to what he described as “particularly grave violations” by the RSF and affiliated forces in Darfur, including mass killings, sexual violence, torture, abductions and forced displacement, while noting that serious abuses have also been documented in SAF-controlled areas, including arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment and summary executions.
The war, meanwhile, increasingly extends beyond Sudan’s borders.
Foreign backing has become a central feature of the conflict. A July 2026 UK government assessment, drawing on U.N. and other reporting, said the RSF had benefited from support networks involving the UAE and neighboring countries, while SAF had received backing from states including Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. The UAE has repeatedly denied providing military support to the RSF.
Fox News Digital reached out to the UAE Embassy in Washington and the UAE mission to the U.N. but did not receive a response in time for publication.
BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT FACES GROWING THREAT AS HOUTHI ATTACKS RAISE FEARS OF A SECOND HORMUZ
A Sudanese refugee father from Al-Fashir rides on a motorized cart with his family travelling between Chad and Sudan amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, at the Tine border post in eastern Chad, November 22, 2025.(Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
Hudson said the RSF’s foreign relationships are only part of a much larger regional competition.
He said Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Qatar have supported the army to varying degrees, while outside powers pursue their own strategic interests in Sudan.
That competition increasingly centers on Sudan’s Red Sea coastline. “There is a regional battle of influence among neighboring states and regional states who want to be able to control Sudan’s Red Sea coastline,” Hudson said, pointing to potential military, port and economic access.
“Superimposed on top of the conflict inside Sudan is a regional proxy conflict for influence in Sudan and in the wider Horn of Africa, Red Sea region,” he said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said foreign powers are central to prolonging the war. “What’s happening in Sudan would not be happening were it not for external actors supporting one side or the other,” Rubio told reporters during UNGA week, describing U.S. efforts to secure even limited humanitarian agreements as “very frustrating.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers remarks at the start of a ministerial meeting on political violence, at the State Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2026.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Rubio said the parties have repeatedly agreed to commitments only to abandon them when one side believes it is gaining the upper hand. “There are external actors. I’m not going to single them out. You know who they are,” Rubio said. “That war and that conflict and that crisis would not be happening were it not for the active participation of external actors that are feeding one side of that conflict or another.”
He said meaningful progress would depend on those states pressuring their respective partners in Sudan.
“Until those external actors are prepared to use influence and pressure their respective proxies to live up to the commitments that they’re making, we’re not going to make progress,” Rubio said.
WORLD’S HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM BUCKLING, ‘NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE,’ US-BASED RESEARCHERS SAY
Mona Mohamed, 33, a Sudanese refugee who fled Al-Fashir, reacts during an interview with Reuters, amid ongoing conflict in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, at the Iridimi refugee camp, northwest of the town of Iriba, in Wadi Fira province, eastern Chad, November 27, 2025.(Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
Sudan’s strategic value goes beyond geography. The country has significant gold, agricultural and livestock resources and sits at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East. The World Bank has described Sudan as rich in fertile land, water and minerals, while noting its substantial gold production and agricultural potential.
Sudan also controls critical infrastructure used to transport South Sudanese crude oil to the Red Sea. A World Bank assessment says South Sudan’s oil has historically traveled through pipelines across Sudan to Port Sudan, its key export route.
Hudson said that broader regional competition helps explain why Washington has struggled to force Sudan’s outside backers to pull away.
“The United States is not going to use the limited political capital that it has with Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Turkey or UAE to get them to control their support to one side or the other in this conflict,” he said.
Hudson also questioned Washington’s diplomatic strategy, arguing that pressure on Burhan has not been matched by sufficient direct engagement inside Sudan.
He said Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior advisor for Arab and African affairs, has never traveled to Sudan while attempting to mediate the conflict.
Massad Boulos, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the United States’ embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.(Amr Nabil/AP Photo)
“He’s trying to mediate peace in a country that he’s never been to,” Hudson said, arguing that Washington needs more “personal diplomacy” and less reliance on public statements and social media.
“If we want these people to sign a ceasefire deal, then they have to trust us,” Hudson said. “And right now we’ve given them no reason to do so.”
Patients are pictured in one of the rooms of the Saudi hospital in Khartoum’s twin-city Omdurman on March 20, 2025 as most hospitals and schools no longer function in the Sudanese capital and its environs due to the ongoing war which broke out in April 2023. Since April 2023, the conflict has pitted army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his former deputy and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leaving thousands dead and uprooting more than 11 million, according to U.N. figures, with many living in makeshift camps and over 3.5 million fleeing across the country’s borders.(Ebrahim Hamid / AFP via Getty Images)
The U.N. acknowledged that international efforts have so far failed to stop the fighting. “Unfortunately, we are not seeing the war abating,” Dujarric said, reiterating the U.N. position that “there is no military solution to the conflict,” and noting Washington’s diplomatic role as the US and African Union co-chaired a Sept. 23 meeting bringing together the Quad and Quintet diplomatic groupings.
“The immediate priority is to stop the killing and secure a cessation of hostilities, while creating the conditions for a credible political process,” he said.