On Sudan: America and China take very different tacks (Matteo Boccia – Lowy The Interpreter)

On 22 May, the US State Department announced a determination that the Sudanese army had used chemical weapons in the current civil war. The announcement came with no details about which chemical agents were used by the army, or where and at what scale, except that such weapons were deployed in 2024. This is not the first time that allegations of chemical weapons usage in Sudan have been raised. Amnesty International disclosed that brutal military attacks have destroyed or devastated more than 170 villages in the isolated Jebel Marra area of Darfur since the beginning of 2016. At least 30 of these attacks allegedly included chemical weapons.

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