The United States is imploring all countries supplying weapons to Sudan’s warring parties to halt arms sales, warning that history in the vast western Darfur region where there was a genocide 20 years ago “is repeating itself.

The Sudan civil war’s heavy humanitarian toll and high geopolitical risks are prompting Washington and its allies to seek an end to the fighting.

Players beyond the borders of Sudan — from its African neighbours to the Gulf States and beyond — are influencing the course of the conflict for their own purposes and increasing the chances of it metastasizing,

Thousands have been killed and nine million have fled their homes in a conflict fuelled by warring factions in the African country