A grim look at how outside powers are keeping Sudan's war going, terrible news for civilians caught in a conflict with no end in sight.

• Sudan's civil war between the army (SAF) and the paramilitary RSF has become a proxy war, with foreign countries arming both sides long past the point of exhaustion.
• A new investigation shows eastern Libya, run by warlord Khalifa Haftar, is letting the UAE funnel weapons, fuel, and even Colombian mercenaries to the RSF through secret desert camps.
• The UAE backs the RSF to grab Sudanese gold, farmland, and Red Sea ports, and to reward the RSF for sending troops to fight for it in Yemen.
• No one is stopping it because the UAE spreads huge investments across the US, UK, and Africa, buying silence, including money that flowed to a Trump family crypto venture.
• The RSF's takeover of El Fasher was so bloody the bloodstains were visible from space, with as many dead in six weeks as in the entire Gaza war.

Outlook: With the UAE facing no real pressure to cut off the RSF, the killing is expected to drag on with no end in sight.