Young soldiers, wearing uniforms the same color as the sandy ground, play card games in a market stall to fill time between firefights. Less than a mile away, in a displacement camp clinging to the edge of town, people build shelters from dried grass to keep the blazing heat at bay. After dark, gunfire echoes off the surrounding hills. Tongoli is located in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, in central Sudan, which is now the front line of the devastating civil war that began three years ago, April 15, 2023. With Sudan now roughly divided between a paramilitary-controlled west and a government-controlled east, this is “the last remaining contested region,” explains Maram Mahdi, a peace and governance researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, a think tank based in South Africa. War without ideology Why We Wrote This After three years of fighting, there is no end in sight for Sudan’s brutal civil war. Its civilians are paying an unfathomable price.…