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Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Sudan Is Using Chemical Weapons—and No One Is Stopping It

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Hollie McKay
Jan 29, 2026
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Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. What started as an elite rivalry exploded into what the United Nations now calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

But it is worse than you think.

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