🇸🇩 While I have a personal connection to Iran, the American and Israeli war against which has dominated international reporting for well over a month, the bitter truth is that terrible events and everyday mass violence take place across the world, but are often overlooked, not least when occurring in "forgotten conflicts" such as the Sudanese Civil War. This is not, of course, the first recent conflict on the African continent to be largely overlooked—the devastating internal conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region comes to mind. As my friend @Kodouda and his coauthor argue in their Foreign Affairs article, many around the world may wish that this intractable problem would simply "disappear" with a "quick and easy solution," such as partitioning Sudan. A prompt end to violence and human suffering may, to some, help remove a stain from our collective conscience, but partitioning a country may not resolve the underlying sources of dispute and conflict, and thereby risks kicking the proverbial can down the road, such that the conflict can resume, in perhaps a new form, later on.