El Fasher fell last week. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – United Arab Emirates-backed Janjaweed militia on steroids – went door-to-door. UN speaks of “horrendous” summary executions, mass rape, children shot in front of parents, bodies left for dogs. Darfur 2.0, only bloodier: 150,000 dead since 2023, 13 million displaced, half of Sudan starving. The planet’s worst humanitarian crisis. Brussels? Crickets.
Kaja Kallas said that “the culture of impunity must stop”. Translation: Do not expect us to do anything. Twelve individuals and eight shell companies on the EU sanctions list are nothing short of a joke. The real paymaster, the United Arab Emirates, ships Chinese drones, Sudanese gold, and suitcases of cash to the RSF via Chad and Libya. Brussels’ answer? A €270 million “humanitarian package”, which vanishes into NGO Instagram accounts while the killers reload. Zero pressure on Abu Dhabi. Gulf oil and arms deals prevail.
Same as in Nigeria, here too Western cameras look away. Gaza gets 24/7 live streams. Sudan gets a 30-second voice-over between weather and sport – if it makes the news in the first place. Why? The dead may be black, but many are also Christian, or simply not trend-worthy. No keffiyehs, no campus shows, no hashtags here. Just another African war, raging on until shiploads of survivors wash up on Crete and Lampedusa.
They are already sailing. Two million Sudanese have fled to Chad and Egypt since April. Frontex notes a 35 per cent spike in sub-Saharan boats since El Fasher’s fall. Libya’s slave markets are flourishing. Smugglers ask minimum €2,000 per head to Europe. Greece suffocates. Italy’s coastguard is stretched to breaking. Germany’s welfare offices brace for impact. As for political elites, they look the other way while the EU is being invaded -this is before they accuse conservatives on the rise of populism.
Remember 2015? One million Syrians and Afghans turned the continent upside-down. Sudan’s exodus, coupled with the one from Nigeria, can be larger, poorer, and far more radicalised. RSF fighters mingle into the refugee columns. ISIS and Al-Shabaab recruiters work the camps. One in five boats now carries a fighter, Italian intelligence says. Yet the European Commission still lectures us about “safe pathways”.
Meanwhile the UAE are laughing. Every RSF atrocity fills Emirati vaults with gold looted from Darfur’s mines. Brussels courts Emiratis for COP30 photo-ops and multi-billion trade deals. When MEPs table motions on Sudan, they are being buried by the EPP-S&D majority. Solidarity for sale, with African blood being the currency.
Egypt and Tunisia could be the next dominoes. Cairo hosts 800,000 Sudanese. Khartoum’s collapse would possibly mean Cairo’s collapse too. President of Egypt General Sisi already asks Brussels for €1 billion of “migration management” cash. When the dam breaks, he will open the valves and dare us to protest. Tunisia’s President, fresh from expelling black migrants into the desert, will do the same. Blackmail works when Europe has no spine.
Yet there is another way. Freeze every Emirati asset in the EU until the last drone is grounded. Slap secondary sanctions on every bank that touches RSF gold. Triple Frontex ships in the central Med and give them rules of engagement. Tell Egypt and Tunisia: No visa-free travel, no trade facilities until the boats stop. Invoke Article 7 against any Member State that blocks the plan.
Stop theorising about “root causes” while shovelling cash to the arsonists. Sudan is burning because Brussels looked away. This is sure to backfire. The boats are already arriving and patriotic political forces will keep rising every these immigrant invaders touch shore. Brussels will scream “fascism” while counting the votes it created.
Europe has one last chance to choose: Act like a civilisation with borders, values, and a historical memory rather than a news fixation, or keep posing for selfies with Gulf princes while the next Armada lands. The death toll in El Fasher rises hourly. The engines on the Libyan coast are warming up. Tick-tock, Brussels.
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