
2025-08-11
Al-Radar: Professor Umm Suhaib Writes... Sudan: The Tragedy of the Century Absent from the World's Eyes
The state of Islam, which protects its people, has disappeared, so Muslims live in misery, torment, and disasters in various parts of the world, including Sudan, which is currently experiencing one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history as a result of the bloody fighting that has been going on for two years between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which has led to horrific tragedies that no one is talking about or trying to stop. A forgotten fight that the media does not shed light on, and no state or even institutions reveal its inner workings.
The people are subjected to serious violations, including mass killings, displacement, forced refuge, famine, disease, sexual violence, and other disasters, and there is no overseer or accountability!
With atrocities being committed by both warring parties, estimates indicate shocking numbers of deaths and injuries, especially among women, children, and the elderly. The number of deaths has been estimated at no less than 150,000 people, including more than 60,000 in Khartoum State alone during the first 14 months of the conflict.
The number of injured exceeded 70,000, with great difficulties in obtaining medical care due to the collapse of the health system and the cessation of 70-80% of health institutions, and the spread of diseases such as cholera, measles, and diarrhea. Education has also collapsed; there are nearly 20 million children in Sudan today who are out of school.
Many areas witnessed horrific massacres, cold-blooded executions, kidnappings, and torture, including children, including the massacres of Wad al-Noura, al-Hilaliya, Jalqani, al-Suraiha, Tamboul, Zamzam camp, villages in North Darfur, Geneina, Ardamta, and villages in White Nile State in the center of the country, which led to the killing of thousands of civilians and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of them. In addition to this, there are crimes of sexual violence and gang rape against women, girls, and even children.
This fighting has led to the displacement of more than 14 million people, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM); including more than 11 million internally displaced persons in Sudan, and more than 3 million refugees who have fled to neighboring countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Central Africa, South Sudan, Chad, and even Jordan.
Children represent 53% of internally displaced persons, making Sudan the largest internal displacement crisis in the world, with displaced persons making up about a third of Sudan's population of about 50 million. Refugee camps lack basic services, as they suffer from a lack of food, clean water and health care. These camps are also subjected to frequent attacks, which increases the suffering of the displaced.
All of this has led to a severe food crisis, especially since both sides are using starvation as a weapon of war by preventing food from entering the areas they control, as about 25 million people - almost half the population - need food aid, especially in IDP camps. There are hundreds of thousands of children suffering from acute malnutrition, and a large number of them are at risk of death. Reports indicate that about 3.7 million children in Sudan suffer from malnutrition, with expectations that this number will increase if the situation continues like this, and the possibility of the death of about 220,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition.
That is, Sudan, which was considered the food basket of the world due to the abundance of agricultural land, water, and livestock, its people have become suffering from hunger, poverty, disease, and displacement, and it is facing the largest humanitarian disaster in all respects as a result of the accursed war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, to continue achieving the ambitions of their mistress America in Sudan and its wealth, the heavy price of which is paid only by the afflicted people of Sudan.
This fighting will continue in Sudan and other Muslim countries as long as colonial ambitions exist, and the insignificant rulers are squatting on their chests. So, work, O people, to remove them and find the second Rightly Guided Caliphate on the method of Prophethood so that Sudan and all Muslim countries may be liberated from the shackles of colonialism in all its forms and methods. Allah Almighty said: ﴿That is because Allah will never change a favor He has bestowed upon a people until they change what is within themselves.﴾.
As Ibn Majah narrated with his chain of transmission to Abdullah bin Omar, may God be pleased with them, who said: The Messenger of God ﷺ approached us and said: «O Muhajirin: Five things, if you are afflicted with them, and I seek refuge in God from you reaching them; Immorality has never appeared in any people to the point that they openly declare it, but plague and diseases that did not exist among their predecessors who passed away spread among them, and they did not reduce the measure and the balance but that they were seized with years of famine, severe hardship, and the injustice of the sultan over them, and they did not withhold the zakat of their wealth but that they were prevented from rain from the sky, and if it were not for the animals, they would not have been rained upon, and they did not break the covenant of God and the covenant of His Messenger but that God subjected an enemy from other than them to them, so they took some of what was in their hands, and as long as their imams do not judge by the Book of God and choose from what God has revealed, God will put their strength among them.» This, by God, is our situation and our condition in the Islamic countries since the disappearance of the sun of the Caliphate and the shepherd and leader who rules by God's law and religion.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Muslimah Al-Shami (Umm Suhaib)
Source: Al-Radar