Naturally, the government and some Sudanese citizens support the move to lift sanctions, but few in the marginalised conflict area of the Nuba Mountains share this sentiment. “From my vantage point here in the Nuba Mountains, there has been no improvement in the humanitarian situation,” says Dr. Tom Catena in an op-ed, the award-winning and sole foreign doctor working in the Nuba Mountains. In this context, the Nuba people cannot understand why the U.S. would reward a regime by lifting sanctions. “Lifting sanctions will help the Sudan government economically and enable them to commit more crimes against us,” he added. “That’s why I call on the entities that want to lift the sanctions to actually increase them.”Others are less opposed to the idea of lifting sanctions but the timing.