At the United Nations, a unanimous but fragile vote has extended a partial arms embargo on Sudan's Darfur region for one month — not as resolution, but as a pause in a deeper argument about power, sovereignty, and the limits of international will. Behind the procedural agreement lies a fundamental disagreement: the United States sees a 20-year-old sanctions regime as dangerously insufficient for a war that has killed at least 59,000 people and uprooted 13 million more, while Russia and Sudan insist that expanding restrictions would strip a sovereign nation of its right to defend itself. The mo
UN extends partial Sudan arms embargo as US pushes for nationwide ban
The ongoing conflict has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced 13 million, pushing parts of Sudan into famine and creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.