For the past three years, reports of wartime atrocities and dire humanitarian crises have been making the headlines from Sudan. Now, satellite imagery shows the extent of the damage to the country’s agriculture and industrial sectors. An Al Jazeera digital investigation using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) reveals the devastating toll of the war on Sudan’s largest irrigated farming projects in the central states of Gezira, Sennar, and Khartoum.

The fertile plains of central Sudan – known as the country’s “breadbasket” – have been devastated, the images show, with the vibrant, geometric green grids that once defined the country’s agricultural heartland now faded into a barren, dusty brown. Sudan descended into a bloody civil war on April 15, 2023 following a power struggle between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary force, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

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      3 days ago

      Every huge piece of data about this is also from satellite images. It’s so concerning that news isn’t otherwise getting out.

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      how i, the most willfully stupid useful idiot, turn sudan into attack that only strikes whoever the most progressive person who can win an election to produce my desired result (stopping that from halpening)

      until i know, hehe, why post

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        Every progressive would be able to answer honestly, that they are against genocide in general and therefore against both those in Gaza and Sudan. It therefore just does not work as a strike against progressives at all.

        It works against Arab nationalists however. So interesting, that this triggers you.

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    But its now ¨the j…¨ I mean Israel, so its not worth the news.

    Not taking sides everywhere, but life.