Why Sudan disappeared from global headlines - until the Iran war

Why Sudan disappeared from global headlines - until the Iran war Submitted by Osama Abuzaid on Thu, 05/14/2026 - 20:43 Recent geopolitical reframing of the Sudanese crisis distorts the true picture, and risks entrenching the three-year conflict Activists ride in a bus bearing a message from Amnesty International advocating international action on the Sudan war, in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15 April 2026 (Tony Karumba/AFP) On There are wars that dominate the global imagination - and others that quietly fall out of it. Sudan has become the latter. For more than three years, Sudan has been living through a catastrophe that would dominate global headlines under different circumstances.