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This paper argues that unless action is taken to actively enforce the existing arms embargo or expand it to cover the whole of Sudan, the status quo in Darfur is likely to continue. Arms and other military materiel will continue to flow from Khartoum’s international suppliers into Darfur, ultimately replenishing the stocks of the Sudan Armed Forces, its proxies, and Darfur rebel forces. As those forces are now engaged in the wider conflict outside Darfur along Sudan’s contested southern border, the current sanctions and enforcement regime appears ever more inadequate.