The biggest hunger crisis in the world is unfolding in Sudan, and it is manmade. As of now, more than half of the country’s 45 million people urgently need humanitarian assistance. In May, the United Nations warned that 18 million Sudanese are “acutely hungry” including 3.6 million children who are “acutely malnourished.”

Heirs of the infamous Janjaweed militia—the ethnic Arab fighters who inflicted massacre and starvation in Darfur between 2003 and 2005, leaving over 150,000 civilians dead—they use this plunder to sustain their war machine. The SAF, which is the dominant power in the United Nations-recognized government of Sudan, has blocked humanitarian aid to the vast areas of the country under RSF control.

  • @gedaliyahOPM
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    -23 months ago

    Palestinian billionaires have also spent 20 years investing in telling their story more effectively to the West. Like for example how 30,000 killed became 30,000 civilians. According to the best reports available, about 1/3 of those were Hamas fighters (Hamas claims 8000, Israel unsurprisingly claims it’s much more).

    The people of Sudan have no billionaires to tell their story. They only have us.