Futility and horror of war plays out on stage as well as on our TV screens
Smoke rises from buildings during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, on April 22 2023. Picture: REUTERS/MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH
Leaving the television images of gunships bombing the Sudanese capital Khartoum for the cacophony of William Kentridge’sThere is a moment when the words “The Zeppelin is over Khartoum” flash onto the theatre’s screen, referring to the 1917 flight of what was nicknamed “The Africa Ship” on a resupply mission to troops stranded in Germany’s East African colony.
At that moment, today’s bombing and the horror experienced by Africans in World War 1 come together vividly.leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his Sudanese Armed Forces , and the Rapid Support Forces’ Gen Hamdan Dagalo.Not so long ago we celebrated the courage of millions of Sudanese who took to peaceful demonstrations to oust, in April 2019, the 30-year brutal dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir and the toppling of his regime with the assistance of the two generals and their forces.
We have to ask ourselves what today’s foreign forces, circling vulture-like over the killing fields of Khartoum, are hoping for if their dog in the fight were to win.Sudan matters to many other states. Its location on the Red Sea, in the Horn of Africa and as the carrier of the Blue and White Nile rivers, makes it critical to countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have not hesitated in supporting the past military regime and one or other of the competing military forces.
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