Since April 2023, Sudan has been living through a war that does not merely destroy the present — it erodes the past and forecloses the future. A joint UN and African Futures analysis has placed precise numbers on what unchecked conflict costs a nation: by 2043, Sudan's per capita income could fall below what it was in the 1960s, undoing generations of hard-won progress. Seven million people were pushed into extreme poverty in a single year, and nearly fifteen million have been displaced, yet the deeper catastrophe is structural — a country with genuine resources and potential being systematica
Sudan's War Pushing Development Back to 1960s Levels, Study Warns
Over 150,000 killed and nearly 15 million displaced since April 2023; 25 million face food insecurity and 19 million lack safe water and sanitation.