Adopting ethical trade policies that exclude all livestock exported from Sudan\u2019s killing fields would stop the conflict, says Nicholas Stockton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your editorial (15 May<\/a>) is right to state that there is no more time to be lost in stopping Sudan\u2019s civil war, but exactly how this should be achieved is not explained. Even if the security council had an appetite for reviving Unamid, the hybrid UN\/African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur that was closed in 2020, it would be no more effective than its predecessor, itself an expensive spectator to the violent clearances of peasant farmers in Darfur. But as there is no international political will for such military gestures, what is to be done?<\/p>\n

After decades of marginalisation, Sudan\u2019s pastoralist herders started hitting back in 2003, destroying peasant farmers\u2019 villages and converting the most favoured agricultural zones in Sudan into gigantic militarised ranches.<\/p>\n

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