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Well into its fourth year, the war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. At least 59,000 people have been killed and more than 14 million displaced, while famine and widespread sexual violence have left millions in urgent need of food, medicine, and mental health support.

Sudanese people know the war must end—and, God willing, it will. But after more than a dozen failed cease-fires brokered by international parties, it is time to put a lasting end to this war so the guns do not return when the world looks away. That is what Sudanese civilians ask of me, as president of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, and of others entrusted with governing: that the war is ended for good and that the foreign meddling that has fractured our nation and profited from our suffering ceases completely.

Well into its fourth year, the war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. At least 59,000 people have been killed and more than 14 million displaced, while famine and widespread sexual violence have left millions in urgent need of food, medicine, and mental health support.

Sudanese people know the war must end—and, God willing, it will. But after more than a dozen failed cease-fires brokered by international parties, it is time to put a lasting end to this war so the guns do not return when the world looks away. That is what Sudanese civilians ask of me, as president of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, and of others entrusted with governing: that the war is ended for good and that the foreign meddling that has fractured our nation and profited from our suffering ceases completely.

The war in Sudan is not a fight between two “factions” or a “civil war”; our sovereign state and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia do not sit on equal moral and legal ground. Rather, this is an assault on a United Nations member state by a paramilitary group that survives on looting, killing, and ethnic cleansing. The RSF must not be legitimized or treated as an equal partner. After all, the........

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