Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 20 of his Senate Democratic colleagues in pressing the State Department to use its leverage to prevent further atrocities in Sudan and help bring the war to an end. To do so, the Senators urge the State Department to cease certain U.S. arms sales to external actors like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which continues to arm the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) in Sudan. The Senators’ letter notes the immediate need for the State Department to take action in light of the impending siege of the city of El Obeid and following the mass atrocities and bloodshed that occurred in El Fasher last year.

Given the disastrous state of our world and the terrible existential threats now looming over it, it is more urgent than ever to seek out and discover the forces capable not only of (re)instilling the hope that is so sorely lacking among the peoples of the world, but also—and above all—of serving as an inspiration and a guiding light for their struggles. And take note: we must discover them not after the fact—in 10, 30, or 50 years—but now, in time, before the foretold catastrophe is upon us.

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