Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody
cares

https://t.co/2F9NK2w9yp

by Jonathan Freedland

"The Guardian", Fri 11 Oct 2024 17.36 BST

The war is killing tens of thousands, but not getting the attention it
deserves. The reasons why are as complex as the conflict itself.

Remember when we said that Black Lives Matter? We didn’t mean it. That
much is clear now, as the world watches a war that is killing tens of
thousands, that has displaced more than 10 million and which is
threatening to devour 13 million more through famine – and barely
gives it a glance. Most of those are Black lives and it could not be
more obvious that, to an indifferent world, they don’t matter at all.

Don’t be too hard on yourself if you haven’t yet guessed which
conflict, and project of ethnic cleansing, I’m speaking of. With a few
honourable exceptions, it’s barely covered on TV, on the radio or in
the papers. Most politicians never mention it. There are no mass
demonstrations on the streets, no hashtags on social media. Instead,
the war in Sudan is out of sight and out of mind – for reasons that
say a little about Africa and much more about everyone else.

The conflict has raged since April 2023, so there’s been no shortage
of time to notice it. Nor is it lacking epic scale. On the contrary,
aid organisations say Sudan faces “the world’s worst humanitarian
crisis”. The suffering is not complicated or abstract, but
heart-rending, brimming with the kind of horror that ordinarily would
seize global attention.

Read it all here:
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/world-humanitarian-disaster-sudan>

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