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the pending blood sacrifice....
This was the second day of our honeymoon, towards the evening, the uncle said, 'look, I've already told him that what he (the brother) Is asking won't be possible as I've known you, but I feel the obligation to still tell you the situation. I responded politely and asked why my wife's brother couldn't relate it to me directly. What ever it is I promised to take care of it speedily but also insisted that my wife should be kept our of it. Immediately after the call, my wife enquired about the person that called, and I told her it was her uncle, she concluded that maybe it's because of some money they wanted me to send to them and I replied her that it has already been settled.
I had already started praying but didn't Inform my wife what I was praying about, but she was also part of the prayers and all along I reminded God that Jesus had already offered the ultimate sacrifice and had also pronounced on the cross that it is finished. I prayed fervently pleading nothing but THE BLOOD OF JESUS, THE PRECIOUS LAMB OF GOD. THAT BLOOD THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS THAN THE BLOOD OF ABEL AND ANIMALS. I asked that the blood of Jesus be poured on the grave of the late father to settle the matter once and for all.
After praying for three days, I called the uncle to inform him that the issue have been resolved, and that was the end of the matter. Nobody ever asked of any animal from me or whatsoever. It's been nine solid years of marriage now with three children, and God had been faithful to us, trough thick and thin.

I give all the glory, honour, praise, and adoration to God almighty for what he has been doing for my family. I worship Him who is sitting on the throne in heaven. The lamb of God and the Lion of the tribe of Judah. The Ancient of Days.
Thank you Jesus.

And you've never had your prayers answered?

Kobojunkie:
Oh, I am not righteous, yet! I am still seeking first the Kingdom of God(Holiness), and God's righteousness so that all these things — the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(including answers to prayers) — can be added to me, and all through continuous submission and obedience of the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, God's Truth, and Law in the Kingdom of God. Surely, you do not expect me to feed you lies because I have yet to attain it myself?

2. The chances of my dying today are slim to none this since Jesus Christ said He will never lose anyone whom God has given to Him — except Judas of course.

Kobojunkie:
Oh, I am not righteous, yet! I am still seeking first the Kingdom of God(Holiness), and God's righteousness so that all these things — the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(including answers to prayers) — can be added to me, and all through continuous submission and obedience of the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, God's Truth, and Law in the Kingdom of God. Surely, you do not expect me to feed you lies because I have yet to attain it myself?

2. The chances of my dying today are slim to none this since Jesus Christ said He will never lose anyone whom God has given to Him — except Judas of course.

Have you seen my wedding testimony post? It's not complete yet...you may find something of it.

After proper arrangements were made, my wife to be and I agreed to hold our wedding on her passing out from youth service, so we did the introduction midway to her service year. The main event was to hold two weeks before her pop. We did the necessary traditional marriage rites as advised by the elders.
I remembered two challenges that arose a and how God settled all for me.
The first one was to buy a life goat for the elder brother who is now standing in for the father, so by their family tradition a goat would be killed and the blood spilled on the grave of the late father. The brother was unable to explain details to me for reasons best known to him. How ever he communicated to his maternal uncle who kept it close untill our wedding day.

On the day of our wedding in the morning hours, the entire atmosphere was darkened as though it was becoming as nightfall, alas I was dressing up in my apartment when my phone rang it was my fiancee, she called to inform me about the weather and what would happen if it rained. The time scheduled couldn't be readjusted as the priest to officiate had other serious engagement.
We where three in my room, myself, my brother and my best man. We all came outside and saw the condition, it looked as if someone wanted to spoil the day for us.

Kobojunkie:
■ Jesus Christ told you to seek first the Kingdom of God(Holiness) and then God's righteousness, in order to have all these things --- the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(including answers to prayers) shall be added onto you. Do you think Jesus Christ was simply making a joke when He said that?
■ Jesus Christ urged you to become Holy/Perfect like the Father in Heaven is Holy. He was not simply asking that you try it.
■ Jesus Christ said that God loves only those who trust and obey Him much like He, Jesus Christ trusted and obeyed His Father - John 15 vs 7 - 14. If Jesus Christ was loved by God because He was righteous, doesn't that they mean you also need to become righteous in order to do that which Jesus Christ was able to do and more.

*Are you righteous, and if you die this evening do you think you will make heaven?

Does Gos answer the prayers of the righteous only?

What's your opinion on the above question with bible reference.

Be matured in your response by not using abusive words against others who may respond in different opinion when and if you quote anyone.


#Oluwaseun please move to front page let's get enough response as we learn together.

Kobojunkie:
Are you born-again? What proof do you have as evidence, from God Himself, that you are born-again - born of water and born of Spirit - John 3 vs 1 - 21?

What cross was given to you when you made the decision to follow Jesus Christ - Matthew 10 vs 37-39?

Zech.4.6 - Then he said to me, "This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty.

Rom.8.26 - And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

1Cor.14.15 - Well then, what shall I do? I will do both. I will pray in the spirit, and I will pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will sing in words I understand.

Rom.8.27 - And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will.

John 4:24

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

Blue86:
Don't listen to that guy. By now, with his first response, you should know he don't know what he is saying.

Pray for him, and peace unto him.

Thanks for your advice. I will include him in my prayers.

Kobojunkie:
1. By the statement in bold, are we to then take it that Jesus Christ lied when He said the Spirit or Truth, the Helper who is the Holy Spirit, only lives in those who are not of the world aka those who are Holy and hence worthy of Him - John 14 vs 15 - 27?

2. There are no contradictions in the Gospels yet everything you stated here contradicts the accounts contained in the Gospels.

3. Pray for understanding when God made clear instead that understanding is given by Him only to those who use the understanding they have- Matthew 13 vs 10 - 13 & Matthew 25 vs 29 & Mark 4 vs 22 - 28? And the Holy Spirit, according to Him given only to those who attain freedom from sin through careful obedience of His teachings and commandments- John 8 vs 31 - 36? Do you notice how your statements continue to contradict the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ?

No point arguing with you. All you need is the HOLY SPIRIT to guide you in all truth. I have studied the scriptures together with your likes and their eyes were opened to the truth. Do not hardened your heart to the Holy Spirit.

verybadmouth:
Remote foreign job has been my savior. Nigeria failed me was out of job for 3 years

I'll like to know how you did got the remote job, I need it seriously...

Kobojunkie:
1. I don't need to know who is saved and who is not before I can assert God's Truth in every situation that calls for it. Or do you feel any of what I stated is change by your personal situation with God?

Ask yourself why my stating the Truth of God leaves you feeling judged. If you are honest with yourself, you will at least admit that it has nothing to do with me as I simply posted here the truth of God.

Go and create your own thread and teach your truth. The Holy Spirit God Himself, the very spirit of our Lord Jesus speaks to those who listen and obey him. If you follow the inspiration He ministered, you'll always have answers to prayers.

Besides God's word is true and there's no contradiction to it whether you read from Matthew or John it's all the same.

Pray for understanding of the word and invite the Holy Spirit to teach you expressly.

PEACE BE UNTO YOU

Kobojunkie:
1. Here's the thing, God said He absolutely does not answer prayers said by unrighteous individuals. So while I understand your desire to attribute this to God, you need to be careful you not declare God a liar by your urge. Miracles happen every day even to unbelievers who never pray at all; God rather said that He pours out His kindness daily on the world including the wicked and the ungrateful meaning that the very same miracle you described here God also pours on those who hate Him as well as those who don't even know of Him.

From this we can conclude that you were not in fact saved because of your prayer --- again, God does not anwer the prayers of the unrighteous--- but because God's kindness which isn't dependent on whether a person prayed or not happened to reach you in your need.

To get to where one worships God in Truth and in Spirit, one first has to abandon the lies and accept God's Truth. Light can't coexist with darkness inside of a one; a little lie renders everyone of no value and meaning where God is concerned so the journey towards God is one of abandoning the lies as one accepts instead His Truth.

You are making yourself look like God, to know who is saved and who isn't, and to also classify an unrighteous person from a righteous one. I don't know what you read but I really feel you shouldn't judge people you don't know.

Kobojunkie:
1. OP, the passage you quoted has absolutely nothing to do with what you pretend. Rather it has to do with witnessing of God's Truth. When two or three are gathered is another way of restating the Law of 2 or 3 witnesses, a law completely removed from what you attempted to use it for here.

As for answers to prayers, God made it abundantly clear in His Word that He does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; their every plea/requests are tainted(made unholy) by their sins and as such an abomination to God. And no amount or your prayer and fasting rituals can make an unrighteous man become righteous, not even if death is involved. So, this your idea of a "Holy Spirit driven" prayer is nothing but a lie cooked up in your imagination.

God only answers the prayers of the righteous --- not to be confused with the prayers of the Holy Spirit. And a righteous man in Jesus Christ is one who has sought and found the Kingdom of God (Holiness), in addition to God's Righteousness, and as such has had all other things --- the benefits and blessings of the Kingdom of God(answers to prayers included) -- added onto him as a result.

As for getting healing, God heals even unbelievers who never ask Him for anything. My first healing experience I had while I was still an unbeliever. And there couldn't have been a holy Spirit then since I was not at all holy to begin with. You see God did say He pours out His mercy on even the wicked and the ungrateful every single day. So why do you need to rope the mention of God's Holy Spirit into your experience when unbelievers pretty much experience the same and they don't claim it meant they too have the Holy Spirit?

I and my friend had an agreement to pray concerning the freedom from kidnapp of his brother, we listed time and days to pray and God intervened. The brother regained freedom miraculously, that's what I'm talking.

adspelite:
without food or water.

They pretended to be sleeping to evade being beaten and were suprised to see the disabled having a private discussion with one of the kidnappers, that was when they realized it was preplanned. While they were quite they both fell asleep only to be awakened by a strong wind. My friends brother woke up and discovered that the disabled was no longer there with them so he called the other man to wake up. They discovered that their abductors were fast asleep despite that it was already storming. They hurriedly dive into the dark river and swam across to the opposite swamp forest. It was really dark in the swamp, but they were able to see because of the frequent thunder and lightening. The lightening showed them the way while the thunder reminded them to press forward. They moved from one swamp to another crossing about three rivers and knowing not were they were headed to God brought them to a small fishing settlement were the people gave them food, new clothes to put on and also contributed money for their transport.
This went took place in bayelsa state in 2012. My friends name is Collins and his brother whom regained his freedom
is called Warisenibo.

I give all the glory to Jesus for answers to our prayers.

adspelite:
We concluded the prayers on the third night, and I told my friend that he should relax because he will hear of a positive news by friday. I remained in my place till Friday evening.

On Friday, I visited my friend and was surprised to find him outside sitting exactly on the same place I had meet him last week. He starred long at me, I was a bit worried because he didn't say anything yet. So I asked him what the issue is again this time, his response was " I've been here for an hour waiting for you because I knew you'll come this evening", I responded by inquiring about his brother's welfare.....in his response he told me the brother had called him to inform him about his freedom from the kidnappers, and that they had escaped on Wednesday midnight. So I asked him what actually happened and how the brother escaped.
My friend said: his brother had told him that the whole thing was a set-up by one of them being kidnapped. They were three person's in the vessel before it was apprehended by their abductors, and that one of them was disabled on one leg and it was him who had arranged for their kidnapping. He said on their arrival in the swamp den, they were put in a tached house built with palm branches and we're lying on the cold floor without food or water.

Not quite too long, after my midnight encounter with the Lord of my life, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit baptism. It was all peaceful untill after 2 to 3 weeks when I got a sad report from my best friend.
I had visited him on a Monday evening and met him sitting on the stair pave to his apartment, looking so disgruntled. I couldn't believe what he told me with a quiet voice....my eldest bro, is been kidnapped while on errand with the company tug boat. The brother was a father and mother to him because they lost their parents while my friend was still very young, so vividly he would turn to the bro anytime challenges come.
So I really saw the pain in him, and after enquiring more about the ordeals it became clear that there was a very serious problem because the company P.R.O had raised alarm earlier that they were not sent on any errands by the company and that the company is not paying for their ransoms. They numbered up to three in the vessel before being taken hostages. what would you do if you are in such a situation? Knowing fully well that the very P.R.O of the com pany who should be responsible for negotiation has openly denied and he is also a part of the family of the abductee
The situation was a pitiful one but alas there was something more to what happened, God was going to reveal HIMSELF more to me and my friend. I had told my friend about my experience few weeks ago and was still very fresh in it so I advised him to join me in prayers, but that was equally difficult because we lived in a separate communities but not to far away and the night wasn't safe for moving across those days. We riched an agreement as led by the Spirit of God. It was simply we both needs to pray together every midnight, exactly 12:00am to 3:00pm for 3 days. We both agreed to it, and I assure him that by Wednesday his brother will be released.
He only needed to put alarm on his device to enable him catch-up with time, but I didn't even bother because I know someone was coming to wake me up exactly that time, so I went home to prepare for for the program.

At midnight precisely 12am I got up from sleep and started praying. The first message the holy spirit gave me was the message of agreement. Matt.18.19 - "I also tell you this: If two of you agree down here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.
I made that prayer in faith believing that my friend was also saying the same prayers at that time.

Three points worthy to note in the Holy Spirit driven prayers were:
1. Prayed for the kidnappers to fall into deep sleep

2. God should release heavy rain storm.

3. The victims should be released forth with thunders and lightnings.

We concluded the prayers on the third night, and I told my friend that he should relax because he will hear of a positive news by friday. I remained in my place till Friday evening.

VenExchangee:
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Win

Kollabo419:
Nna mehnn
If Man U don’t win
I won’t go to work tomorrow

You don't work

enobongalfred:

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They don't want free offer because of greed to steal

Ihateheadslamer:
Small cash

always stealing

kpakpakpa:
Humble greetings fam!

I will like to know if its possible to remove my auditory nerve or anything that can make me to stop hearing completely. I suffered a strange kind of hearing loss that comes with another condition called tinnitus

It happened since 2015 when i was admitted in a teaching hospital(doctors told me that my problem was typhoid) and treated for months. When i was about to discharged, i noticed that one of my ears was not functional which i complained immediately to the docs there told me that my condition was critical and was consequently administered hard drugs which is clearly the cause of my partial deafness and was given an appointment in 2weeks time to follow up about the new ailment. I came back home using only one ear.

After about 5days at home, i enter okada to the use an atm in town, upon reaching the bank, i joined the atm line to made my withdrawal, it was there that an old friend started talking to me that i discovered that both my ears were not functional.

ADVICE
Drink warm water every time you needed to drink fluids for like 30 days consecutively. Also bathe warm water always whether it's a sunny day or not.
Eat plenty fruits like Bananas
Apple
Oranges
Apricots
Citrus Fruits
Cantaloupe
Don't take any medicine
Share your results.

nnamdiosu:
So inspiring and and encouraging. God truly will answer every prayer. It might take time, but he wi.

Please share more. Thanks

I will certainly share

Omofaye99:
The result was predictable, when supporter of APC turned RSF.

You mean APC are now rebels.........watch they're coming for you now

CondenseMilk:
UAE is a family business.

FxMasterz:
You got the message right. The Lord Jesus is one with the Holy Spirit. This is confirmed by the Bible. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ.

Thanks brother I wished this post could make front page for others to learn.

baralatie:
The writer is on a long goose chase if it thinks the west is going to involve itself in this stupid war mentality of Sudan

I think what the writer is saying is that the west are the root cause of the conflict due to a failed policy they introduced. However, I do put the blame on sudanese leaders for failing to settle there differences because of power highness.

CondenseMilk:
where you expecting peace where Islam rules?

But UAE is relatively peaceful nah.

I was born in a very dedicated christian home and my parents and senior siblings helped to teach us the ways of truth. We usually organize prayer meetings every night before bedtime and shared turns to preach. This actually helped us to better understand the scripture to the best of our abilities and fostered our understanding and interpretation of the scripture even translating to our native dialect.

Cut story short,
my parents encouraged me to join the choir in the church and I made some friends there. One faithful day one of my friends in the choir told me on how he began speaking in tongues during a deep worship section in one night vigil he attended. His testimony of speaking in tongues made me to earnestly seek to experience speaking in tongues.

So, days laterafter I'd relocated to a new place as a young adult, I started praying intensely to see the lord Jesus. I had dreams and visions of rapture and the world ending but kept asking God to reveal the lord Jesus to me. This took sometime and I'm not sure how long I'd prayed may be some months, and then one night on my bed while I lay sleeping,, I heard a voice calling me and saying that the Holy Spirit is here, but in response I said I needed to see the Lord Jesus Himself and behold from the corner of my room where I had my wardrobe came forth an angelic procession which took a v-shape with one on white linen gown apparel leading, while the rest behind Him processed by ranks all on white linen gown apparel. He came towards me on the bet where I laid and touched my head saying I am the lord Jesus Christ, and immediately I stared speaking in tongues and my head was visually burning with flames of fire. It continued until I was exhausted and begged God to stop the speaking of tongues, as I couldn't help but rush to the bathroom to put my head under the shower. This made me understand that the Holy Spirit is one with the Lord Jesus.

What happened thereafter was a life changing testimonial prayer with a friend for his kidnapped brother.

I give God all the glory because He still works perfectly in the life of those who believed in His Name.

Jackanda1:
Please i do not welcome comments from atheist on this thread. Thanks

In 2011/2012 after i had given my life to christ. A young man in my church asked me if i had recieved the infilling of the holyspirit, i said no. He promised to pray for me.

A certain day, i think on a saturday, after church service, he laid hands on me in the name of Jesus and prayed in tongues.

The next thing that happened is that i got up from the hard floor of the church. I didn't feel any pain nor did i remember falling. I didn't speak in tongues either. But i had a lot of faith and was happy and believed i had been filled with the holyspirit.

I understand that you are aquinted with the spirit once you're born again, but there is an infilling or baptism of the spirit different from the born again experience.(Acts8:15-17)

So, did i recieve the infilling of the spirit at that time? Is it possible to be filled/baptised with the holyspirit without recieving any of his gifts like speaking in tongues?

You already have the holy spirit inside of you the moment you originally give your life to Christ and become born again.
If you want to experience speaking in tongues then ask God for it in the name of JESUS and you will start speaking in tongues.

Fighting in Sudan began on April 15 after years of tension between the country’s two power brokers: Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s de facto leader and head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemeti, who leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Running street battles started in Khartoum and spread across the country. Residents report that low-flying airplanes strafe the ground. Reports of horrendous human rights violations are starting to emerge.

Fighting in Darfur resulted in the deaths of three aid workers with the World Food Programme. Markets in Darfur have reportedly been burned down. United Nations and NGO compounds have been invaded and looted across the country. The European Union’s ambassador to Khartoum was assaulted in his home by soldiers.

Sudan is facing a state collapse similar to Yemen’s. The SAF launched an intense bombing campaign in Khartoum and may soon take the upper hand in the capital thanks to their superior air power. The air force has been a decisive element in Sudan’s wars, especially beginning in 2003, when the SAF and the precursor to the RSF, the supporter of APC, fought on the same side during the war in Darfur.

The power of Sudan’s air force is why RSF operations in the early hours of the conflict focused on taking control of airports across the country so SAF air operations would be grounded. It has only partially worked. However, it may take weeks to dislodge the RSF from residential buildings in Khartoum that they have converted into military installations. At the same time, it will be difficult to defeat the RSF in their tribal homeland of Darfur, especially with their ability to mobilize soldiers from neighboring Chad. Sudan’s descent into a full-scale civil war appears more likely by the hour.

What may emerge out of a civil war is a conflict that also sucks in the entire region and some global powers. Egyptian soldiers who were training with the SAF were arrested by the RSF in the early hours of the conflict. Diplomats fear that Cairo may be preparing to support the SAF. There are reports of tribal mobilization along the border of Chad and Sudan, the traditional homeland of Hemeti. At least part of the RSF’s information operation has been based in the United Arab Emirates.

The UAE has been a key ally for Hemeti during the former’s war in Libya and Yemen. The UAE also benefits from financial ties to Hemeti’s businesses. Global Witness reports that the UAE has also been a key supplier of military equipment to the RSF. Russian Wagner Group mercenaries trained RSF troops and had officials stationed inside some of their bases. To halt the conflict, the leaders of South Sudan, Djibouti, and Kenya have offered to mediate.

Perhaps the only powers that have a limited ability to shape events in Sudan are the United States and its Western allies. To try to prevent the bleak outlook of state disintegration in Sudan, the U.S. government is working with Arab states—namely Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE—but these U.S. allies are on opposing sides in Sudan. However, Western diplomats have told me they understand that a return to the pre-April 15 status quo is becoming increasingly unlikely as the fighting continues. The absence of U.S. influence comes just four years after a high point for Washington’s hopes in Sudan.

Months of protests in early 2019 led to a military coup against former dictator Omar al-Bashir. It appeared that three decades of U.S. policy to support democracy could finally bear fruit. But the United States and other Western nations pressured civilian protesters and the military to form a transitional government. The eventual transitional constitution meant that elections were scheduled to take place in 2022.


If there was a moment when hope for democracy was lost in Sudan, it was when this transitional constitution was agreed to. The military was allowed to run the country for the first part of the transition. “We still have not achieved what we are fighting for,” Sara Abdelgalil, then a spokesperson for the Sudanese Professionals Association, which helped organize the protests, told Foreign Policy in 2019. “Omar al-Bashir is not there, but the regime itself is still there. Objective one has not been achieved. Objective two has not been achieved, which is a civilian government. It’s like having a diversion in the middle of your journey.”

Burhan was the head of state and was trusted with following through on his promise of democracy.

Immediately when the transitional period began, it was apparent that Western hopes for democracy were far-fetched.

Sudanese soldiers riding on a truck are greeted by a crowd as they travel through the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.
Sudanese soldiers riding on a truck are greeted by a crowd as they travel through the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.
U.S. Readies New Sanctions on Warring Sudanese Forces
Sudanese people greet soldiers loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16.
Sudanese people greet soldiers loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16.
Sudan Descends Into Conflict as Rival Generals Clash
Gen. Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Dagalo, the deputy head of Sudan’s military council, speaks at a news conference in Khartoum on April 30.
Gen. Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Dagalo, the deputy head of Sudan’s military council, speaks at a news conference in Khartoum on April 30.
The Man Who Terrorized Darfur Is Leading Sudan’s Supposed Transition
I interviewed the new civilian prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, in a house that was given to him by a prominent Sudanese family because Burhan and the military initially refused to even give him a place to stay. The core elements of Sudan’s protest movement in 2019, Sudan’s labor unions, lost power due to infighting. Civilian political parties squabbled over power. Reforms that Hamdok wanted to make were blocked by Burhan and Hemeti. The illusion of any civilian authority ended in 2021, when Hamdok was removed in a military coup. The military’s promise to hand over power to civilians proved hollow. The U.S.-backed transition revealed itself as fundamentally flawed.

Perhaps the greatest example of U.S. delusions was Washington’s insistence on calling Sudan’s transition “civilian-led.” There was nothing about Sudan’s transition that was civilian-led. The 2019 transitional constitution laid out that the military would lead for the first 21 months of the transition, followed by civilians for the next 18 months.

Although Hamdok was a civilian prime minister, it was a mostly powerless job. Still, the U.S. government insisted on this phrase, even when the military handover date to civilians was repeatedly delayed. U.S. officials told me that they knew the term was more aspirational than descriptive. But the linguistic acrobatics Washington employed suggested officials believed that they could simply call Sudan a democracy and it would become one.

It’s not clear if the U.S. or Western governments could have prevented the 2021 coup against Hamdok. The transitional constitution that was backed by the United States was a bad deal. However, the ensuing U.S. and Western policies in Sudan directly contributed to the violence that we see today. It is a story of Western peacebuilding and its limits.

Sudan’s feuding generals bear primary responsibility for the current fighting in Sudan. But the precipitating event of the current war in Sudan was a reconciliation agreement and security sector reform plan that was pushed by the United States and the U.N. mission in Sudan. Immediately after the coup against Hamdok, the United States and the U.N. revitalized the plan. It meant returning to a version of the failed 2019 constitution and trusting the military leaders to keep their promises.

The basic idea of the security sector reform was to unify the SAF and RSF into a single army. It is difficult to estimate each force’s size. The SAF have around 100,000 soldiers, while the RSF have a smaller standing army of anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000 fighters but a large reserve force because they can mobilize tribal allies.

Negotiations were held for months trying to get the two sides to agree on a path forward. The problem was that neither Burhan nor Hemeti wanted to give up the power that he’d accrued. The plan became a pressure cooker. “It became a real shit show with all the participants being real amateurs,” a Western diplomat in Khartoum told me after one of the negotiation workshops between the SAF and RSF. “Diplomats here and headquarters think one-dimensionally.”

The outcome that we see of the plan was predictable, in part because it is a repeat of history. The peacemaking effort was a reproduction of agreements that were made in South Sudan in 2013 and 2016. Those also led to civil wars.

The security sector reform in Sudan, as it has elsewhere, created a competition that incentivized Hemeti and Burhan to build up their forces. It also meant that both men would have to be placed under civilian control, which was in neither’s interest. The generals publicly committed to reform and democracy, but it seems the only people who believed them were U.S. and U.N. officials.

Diplomats have told me that they face limited tools to stop the violence in Sudan. The United States and other nations are promoting a humanitarian cease-fire that allows civilians to seek safety and collect food, but it has not been fully honored so far. Putting pressure on Egypt and the UAE would be critical to avoid a regional conflict and to press for a humanitarian cease-fire so civilians can escape. An intense effort to evacuate U.S. citizens may come soon. But once the current crisis is over, there needs to be a reckoning that U.S. and Western policy has not only failed to bring democracy but contributed to Sudan’s collapse.

It’s not clear if Washington is ready. Once fighting began on April 15, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeated U.S. delusions on Sudan: “This is a real opportunity to finally carry forward the civilian-led transition.”

Written by Justin Lynch, a researcher and analyst in Washington, D.C. He is a co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. Twitter: @just1nlynch

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