Excellent report! Who stands to gain? Mr. Medhurst says we should ask. And once again we come back to the US role in the world and in Africa. Does anyone ask this in the mainsteam media? If we do care about real people, no matter where they live, we need to understand, too, about what is happening in this important part of the world, in a large country geographically, with a large population of nearly 50 million, but as a person now living in the US, I have been struggling to understand better what is happening in Sudan. Then I find Mr. Medhurst who comes from a family deeply involved in UN peacekeeping, he with four languages, also concerned about Julian Assange, and he does more than multi-billion dollars news agencies who leave us confused, ignorant, and eventually believing this does not matter in our personal lives, “to hell with it, I have other things to do” It is not easy to follow his commentary because of our/my general lack of background on Sudan, yet in the end, he did it and his original question, who stands to gain?, is the key. Some years ago I worked around a state legislature in a peripheral way trying to sort out thousands of bills and a similar question brought order and understanding, a simple solution: follow the money trail and see who would benefit. Suddenly there was order and understanding. And, leave it to ZNetwork to lead me to Mr. Medhurst! One more question, a rhetorical one in some ways but deeply crucial, How much is a Sudanese life worth? In truth, in existential terms, and in terms of real human beings–mothers, fathers, grandparents–just as much as a single human being in our own families!