There are various ways in which we can examine the Sudanese conflict and its underlying causes. We can treat it as a purely domestic conflict between two warring factions and leaders who are vying for absolute political power. Or we can view it as a proxy war in which outside powers — regional and international — are fighting for the imposition of their own agendas on Sudan.
We can also borrow from the racist Orientalist tropes and assert, yet again, that the people of Africa and the Middle East have always been at war and that the West just wants to establish peace on earth.
In reality, the conflict in Sudan is not isolated from the U.S. agenda in the whole of Africa. We can’t, as we look around various conflicts in Africa, forget that the U.S. founded Africa Command in 2007. Those regional commands that the U.S. establish are intended purely to govern and manage wars in the region covered by that command.
Central Command focuses on wars in the Middle East, while the Africa Command focuses on wars in Africa. Of course, the U.S. would not admit that; the Africa Command
— source consortiumnews.com | As`ad AbuKhalil | May 3, 2023