The UK's role in failing Sudan goes beyond arming the UAE - they factored in a price on the lives of the Sudanese people too. Right, so they’ll tell you Sudan is a tragedy. That it is distant, unfortunate, chaotic, one of those conflicts the world can’t quite get a grip on. But that’s not true. Sudan is not a tragedy. It is, at least in part, an accounting decision. The UK cut its aid budget back in in 2020. Folded Department for International Development into the Foreign Office. Scattered the people who know how to stop mass killings before they start. And when Sudan fell in 2023, when the Rapid Support Forces were burning homes in Geneina and the likes of Human Rights Watch was calling it ethnic cleansing, the Foreign Office sat down and looked at four options. One of those options was civilian protection. But they decided to say balls to that  ...