At the United Nations Security Council on Monday, the United States proposed what Sudan’s war urgently requires: extending the U.N. arms embargo from Darfur to the entire country and explicitly bringing drones and related technologies within its scope. The existing measures expire on Sept. 12. The Council must act now; the case is overwhelming.

Start with an elementary principle: The map of an arms embargo should match the map of the war it is meant to restrain. When the Security Council strengthened the Darfur embargo through Resolution 1591 in March 2005, the mass atrocities driving international action were concentrated there. Months earlier, the U.S. had determined that genocide was being committed in Darfur.

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That map no longer describes Sudan’s war. Since April 2023, the fighting has engulfed all over Sudan, and both belligerents have committed horrific, extensively documented atrocities against civilians. An embargo drawn around the geography of a 20-year-old conflict is no longer a serious policy. It is strategic negligence.

The scale of the catastrophe makes the mismatch even more indefensible. More than 30 million people now require humanitarian assistance, and 14 million have fled their homes. Tens of thousands have been killed, with the true toll almost certainly far higher. Famine has been confirmed, and millions more remain at........

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