Sudan, the war in Yemen and the company you keep

Britain's allies in the war in Yemen were the paymasters of the genocidal group now laying waste to Khartoum. Perhaps the paymasters should seek to end the fighting?

“the genocide is nearly finished”

One of the lowest points of my time working in government service was hearing a civil servant from the Department for International Development (DFID - now rolled into the FCDO) discuss the issue of supplying aid to the Sudanese government around the time of the Darfur genocide. The argument isn’t straightforward: of cou…