New Delhi, July 15 -- GENEVA - The UN human rights office warned Tuesday that Sudan's two-year civil war has produced a self-sustaining economy of resource exploitation, giving both the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces strong financial incentives to keep fighting regardless of the human toll.

The assessment, released by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, documented systematic looting, extortion, and trade-route control across Sudan's resource-rich regions. Both the army and the RSF have built parallel revenue streams from commodities including gold, livestock, and gum arabic, creating what the UN described as a self-perpetuating conflict.

"Sudan's vast wealth of natural resources should ...