There There is a dearth of global headlines reporting bad news. But while the world’s eyes are on Russia’s looming invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and Chinese naval provocations in the South China Sea, the war, genocide and famine unfolding in Africa’s third-largest country has received scant attention.
Sudan has been plagued by coups and civil wars since independence in 1956. The most recent conflict began last year when the Sudanese army (safety) and the Emergency Support Unit (RSFThe two armies, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, are paramilitary groups. Both armies served the same dictator until he was deposed in 2019. Now, after a period of instability in which they shared power, the two armies are fighting for control of the country. Both sides have been accused of looting, raping and killing civilians, and restricting humanitarian aid. Some areas have been completely cut off from basic supplies, and in the worst-hit areas, residents are reportedly eating leaves and seeds to survive. RSF It faces credible allegations of ethnic cleansing of black Africans in the western region of Darfur.