The floundering attempts at a ceasefire around Khartoum are ignoring the growing threat of regional conflagration in the west, As international attention flickered on the failing talks in Jeddah mediated by officials from Saudi Arabia and the United States, the war between Sudan's military factions has been intensifying to horrendous levels in Darfur. The lack of focus by Riyadh and Washington on Darfur ignores the risk of a devastating escalation of Sudan's war across the region. Communities are being dragged into the fight and the widespread killings there amount to ethnic cleansing.