2 weeks Ago
Sudan has begun its third year of civil war in the bleakest manner imaginable: mourning the massacre of hundreds of civilians and relief workers in displacement camps in Darfur. What began as a power struggle between generals has led to the killing of tens of thousands of people and widespread sexual and ethnic violence. The International Rescue Committee says the result is the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded: 640,000 people face catastrophic hunger.
Basic services and infrastructure, already woefully inadequate, have been destroyed. "One thing that has been consistent since day one," the Sudanese activist and commentator Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem observed this week, "[is that] it's a war on civilians. Now, I think we've become so desensitised to it, that doesn't make much of a difference any more.
There's no impact." Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan's army chief and de facto leader, and Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, had together ousted civilian leadership before turning on each other in April 2023. Their vicious battle has forced tens of millions to flee their homes.
Both sides have committed war crimes, and the US has accused the RSF...
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