Sudan's humanitarian crisis (again

The Spectator has an article on the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan...,

  Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Suppoort Forces (RSF) has unleashed a hellish vortex of starvation, violence, and disease upon tens of millions in Sudan.

 

The United Nations recently classified the situation in Sudan as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, but the international spotlight has rarely been focused on the issue due to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

 

25 million people, half of Sudan’s population, are currently experiencing famine conditions and acute food insecurity.

 

Food conditions for 8.1 million people are classified as Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and almost 700,000 as Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). Hunger levels for the same 25 million people are also considered at and above “Crisis” classification. Famine and starvation are also used as military tactics by the SAF and the RSF, as blockades are built and crops are burned. In many areas, particularly Darfur, aid delivery is obstructed, pushing populations into full-scale collapse due to a lack of access to food.

 

Additionally, 12 million people have been internally displaced in the country, forced out of their homes and into refugee camps. These camps provide no real measure of security, however, as in April, the RSF murdered 300 people in two days at one such camp in Darfur.

I don't know about the Sudan except that I worked with a Christian refugee from what is now South Sudan, who became a doctor... and that was 45 years ago...

 THe article points fingers at humanitarians whose aid gets ripped off to fight the war and the fact that the US is becoming isolationist.

This report is a more recent report on that confused but deadly war from last month from AlJezeerah:

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StrategayPage has an article from March about what was going on then and this most recent article is about the Islamicist groups exacerbating the fighting in various Sahel nations.

BBC article from 2023 on the Russian mercenaries fighting in that war.

Winston Churschill had a book on an earlier fight: When the local Islamic extremists planned to throw out the Ottomans but the end result was the Brits got involved.

the unforgotten repeated wars of Sudan

 The headlines shout all about Gaza Genocide, but the deaths and refugees there are small next to other wars around the world. (Syria, Chcchnya,  Rohingye from Burma to name a few).

The worst genocide is in Sudan.

of course the expert wants the US to go in and voila make peace there. But why? It is Europe who messed the area up, and before that it was the Ottoman Empire and Muslim extremists who messed up the area.

 Sounds like the Europeans want TeamAmerica World police to fix it, so they can then criticize the USA and their policies. But the election of Trump suggests that the US is tired of being the world policeman while an affluent Europe sits back and ridicules the USA. 

And with Trumpieboy as president, they are chomping at the bits to find why he is the great Satan. (just like they did when Reagan was President)...

there is a Russian aspect of this: the Wagner Group is working with the rebels.

it's about gold....

this is a recent report on the Wagner group in the central African republic.:

Russia used to offer oodles of scholarships to Africans during the cold war: Often the degrees were useless and mainly learning propaganda.

Actually if the want Africans to succeed, they should teach them Chinese, since China is running the economy in many African countries. But that is another story for another day.