In a column for the Sudanese outlet Sudafax, writer Al-Tahir Sati argues that the world is now focused on Sudan's northern border as though it were the only breach in a torn country. He says the harder truth, one that predates what he calls the treachery of the Dagalo family, is that Sudan's borders are dilapidated along their entire length and violated from every side. In his view, the country is effectively a state without walls. He notes that the long borders with South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Chad have not held.