While the world’s eyes are glued to the Persian Gulf, a 'starvation strategy' of genocidal proportions is being executed in Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have escalated their use of explosive-laden drones to target the most basic pillars of civilian life: schools, hospitals, and markets. In a single week, over 200 civilians have been slaughtered in the Kordofan region and White Nile state. A drone strike on a secondary school in Shukeiri recently killed 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, alongside their teachers and health workers. These are not military errors; they are calculated strikes intended to destroy the social fabric of communities resisting the RSF’s advance.

Beyond the kinetic violence, a more insidious war is being waged through the deprivation of food. Legal experts and researchers from the Humanitarian Research Lab have documented a systematic effort to prevent villagers in North Darfur from producing crops. By destroying the means of production, the RSF is engineering a famine that will kill more effectively than any bullet. This is the 'hallmark of genocide,' a term the UN Human Rights Council is increasingly using to describe the siege of El Fasher. The silence of the international community is deafening, as the global arms trade continues to provide the tools for this carnage under the guise of 'regional stability.'

Sudan’s shadow war is a grim reminder that in the age of autonomous warfare, the most marginalized are the first to be hunted by the machines. The RSF’s drone-led campaign represents the ultimate alienation of violence—where killers can destroy a school from miles away without ever looking their victims in the eye. We demand an immediate international arms embargo on all factions in the Sudanese civil war and the opening of humanitarian corridors to break the RSF's starvation sieges. Solidarity must be more than a slogan; it must be a commitment to the lives being extinguished in the villages of Kordofan.