Declan Walsh
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denouncing foreign funding in the war.
It was continuing to support the RSF and didn't seem to do anything to stop the terrible scenes that we've seen in al-Fasher just over the last couple of weeks.
So it's really a very uncertain effort, but it has to be said that as these images have been coming out of Sudan showing these atrocities,
It is generating outrage and attention around the world.
And in fact, I've even heard recently from very senior American officials that President Trump himself hasn't spoken much about Sudan, but has privately told officials how appalled he was at some of the things he's been seeing and asking what the United States can do at this stage to try and stop it.
I mean, look, one of the most striking things about this war in Sudan is just how little attention it's had despite the immense destruction and human suffering that it has brought.
But what's changed recently, I think, is that we're seeing these images coming out, as there have been in Gaza, that captured people's imaginations because they are so horrified with what they've been seeing.
But the question now is when those images do go away, whether public attention or even global attention will also wane.
And with it, even the small amount of momentum that exists now towards finding a solution to the war.