Public sentiment is overwhelmingly one of heartbreak, frustration, and a deep call for greater international awareness and action regarding the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Commenters express empathy for the suffering civilians while criticizing the neglect by global leaders and the media. There is a perception that the crisis is overshadowed by other geopolitical issues, leading to a collective outrage about the lack of attention and support for the Sudanese people.

International community

Global media

UAE and United States

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I've always thought there was little that could be done about the violence in African states, but then I read this article in The Atlantic:

[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/sudan-civil-war-humanitarian-crisis/683563/](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/sudan-civil-war-humanitarian-crisis/683563/)

The author, Anne Applebaum, writes that in former years the U.S. was instrumental in getting agreements made and in mitigating some of the worst stuff that's happened/happening there. Now she describes how there's a bipartisan retreat from that kind of work. She notes that legislators and the executive branch tended to do this work with very little attention - because few people actually cared. Now, we've pulled away, and things there have become unimaginably worse.

A mass movement in these country, along the lines of what we've seen for other conflicts, or even what we saw for Darfur in the 2000s, could absolutely push our Congressmembers and maybe even the next executive to focus a few very important dollars there.

We can do something. Why are we not? If you're doing something, what are you doing? I plan to talk to my Congressman asap. 

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In addition to the [$2.3 billion](https://www.newsweek.com/us-aid-antony-blinken-200-million-sudan-2003832) that the Biden admin allocated for humanitarian efforts to Sudan, they also [facilitated new routes](https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-sudan) for the delivery of that humanitarian aid through conflict zones, as well as [imposed sanctions on the Sudanese military.](https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/05/04/executive-order-on-imposing-sanctions-on-certain-persons-destabilizing-sudan-and-undermining-the-goal-of-a-democratic-transition/) 

Trump, by contrast, completely gutted USAID.

perverse_panda

We're kind of busy losing our country round these parts. Sorry.

nononotes

Well, step one would be USAID...oh, right no. That was unilaterally gutted by the current Republican administration.

It's almost like Conservatism is an ideology without any actual solutions to problems and simply exists to to serve as PR for the interests of the rich and powerful and things like this are the result.

FoxyDean1

I know this is being asked in whataboutist bad faith, but the U.S. isn't sending billions of taxpayer dollars to fund an ethnic cleansing campaign in Sudan.

So while people who are aware of the awful civil war and humanitarian crisis over there are universally appalled by it, since America isn't footing a substantial chunk of the bill, it's back page news in America *relative* to the two ongoing conflicts America is largely funding and have people divided politically.

For context, the US has only contributed about a half a billion dollars, almost all in humanitarian assistance, to Sudan since that war began, while Ukraine and Israel have both received upwards of 200 billion dollars each from the US per a basic Google search and government sources (though these numbers are frequently disputed, we know the amount is in the hundreds of billions either way)

Cody667

What can we do that will make a meaningful difference?

hitman2218

Really not that hard to understand.

The Vietnam War was a disastrous quagmire that soured the US to long drawn out foreign conflicts. Over time the US population recovered its ability to accept the US being involved in overseas conflicts for the most part but there had to be a sense of objectives and limits. 

Then GWB became President and brought Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, two absolute ghouls, into his administration. We decided that instead of a limited response in Afghanistan we would do nation building and we would tell lies to do nation building in Iraq. 

After two forever wars that included us doing torture, Americans are essentially in a state in constant war weariness. We aren't going to support deployment of troops. We also have a large portion of the right that is in control of the movement that is isolationist.  

Americans just don't care about the role of America as world leader and frankly it is made worse when the people that need help are black africans.

ButGravityAlwaysWins

Liberals protested in droves around DOGE, which included the cutting of USAID. I think your premise is false on its face. Democratic lawmakers would certainly reinstate that kind of support. I think you’re labeling this failing as bipartisan isn’t in good faith.

BIGoleICEBERG

Honestly, I just dont think any human being has the bandwidth to worry about every issue all the time. 

For example, climate imo is by far away the most pressing issue facing the world, but at least in the US we cannot even think about it because everyone is caught up with trump, ice, rfk jr’s recent bullshit, etc. And while I really, really wish there was a larger focus on climate in the states, I can’t blame anyone for not focusing on it in the face of so much more visceral shit that is constantly hitting the news.

It’s so fucked that world issues have to compete for attention like this, but it’s the reality we live in.

It’s also possible that maybe the US could tackle some issues similar to this one if, ya know, congress could actually pass bills. But since we can’t get anything done in congress, and since power shifts constantly in our system, it feels like we have a big to-do list, and it keeps getting longer.

jeeven_

That’s a good question.  Other than sharing opinions, liberals are currently out of power in Washington.  So it’s up to conservatives to step up and help.

ramencents

I keep a pretty close eye on it. I don't think this administration is going to do anything beyond maybe a peace summit. But the action on the ground is way too hot for that. I think we are waiting to see who wins. The RSF or the military.

Odd-Principle8147

justified_hyperbole

KarateKicks100

It’s because they are Africans. The same reason we all learned about the holocaust in depth but not leopold in the Congo

BurnedUp11

Well according to the article, interest eventually dwindled. What remained of down-low bipartisan support got lost esp after Donald Dump came around. Everyday its just nightmare after nightmare of the worst sort of shit. The U.S. International order is dying; if not already dead, we have a fascist administration indifferently and systematically dismantling and politicizing the government, racing desperately to consolidate control over the house, and maximizing presidential authority in every space they can to remain in power indefinitely. China and Russia are in the background and Russia is slowly grinding out a grueling war of attrition in Ukraine. What am I supposed to even feel when I read this article?

NatMapVex

Because China and Russia bots gain nothing by brainwashing people about this, unlike with I/P

Tortellobello45

I’m as sympathetic to humanitarian crises around the globe as the next guy, but we’re in the midst of a nation-altering constitutional crisis and you’re bugging your congresspeople about getting President America First to intervene in another small war-torn country halfway around the world?

pierrechaquejour

I can't make any headway.  And any time I do, I get accused of whatabouting Gaza.

Academic-Bakers-

Because we can't do anything about it because of the problems we have here.

Both-Estimate-5641

Americans cant even get their politicians to enact changes in Israeli policy which poll after poll says a majority of americans want with a much wider understanding of the conflict than the one in Sudan. What makes you think they can get the admin to move on Sudan? Especially while fighting the fascist takeover of the American government at the same time?

TheOneFreeEngineer

partoe5

1. It’s Africa, and despite the propaganda from the fascists on the right, liberals barely care what happens to African Americans here, much less what happens to actual Africans

2. Most of this conflict is internal, and most nations are going to stay out of such conflicts anyway; on the other hand we are directly funding Israel’s genocide, and many Americans of all political stripes find that deeply reprehensible 

3. Even if 2 weren’t the case, everyone has finite bandwidth. We have a deeply corrupt, fascist government preparing a military occupation of its own citizens, kidnapping people and rendering them to death and torture prisons in foreign lands, and completely flouting the law in numerous other ways daily: arguably getting our own house in order is more pressing

7figureipo

Because it doesn’t give them a reason to scream “death to Jews”

Signal_Contract_3592

We've been fucking up north africa for a long time. There's no good reason to think we'd do much better this time.

furutam

Too complicated for most libs, not enough rare earth minerals for Trump

atierney14

I can’t speak to every reason why every genocide doesn’t get exactly equal airtime, or different amounts of airtime in proportion to their magnitude, but I think the outrage we see over Israel-Palestine in the western world has to do with the fact that we as westerners are being told “this is justified actually and you’re a bad and/or naïve person if you don’t think so” in a way that is obviously dishonest, and increasingly so. No such assertion is made re: Darfur. 

You might be interested in Lindsay Ellis’ latest video, in which she actually touches on this specific discrepancy toward the end. Or, more than likely, you will mald and ragequit less than five minutes in. Let’s find out! https://youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?si=yEh451FhGEvv93yr

dog_snack

MAGA defunded USAID which was set up to mitigate these kinds of issues. You identify as a neocon. Why are you bitching at us and not MAGA about what the GOP is up to?

historian_down

It was good that the Biden administration provided effective aid.  It is bad, even illegal, for Trump to cut it off.

On the list of emergencies that Americans need to deal with this is pretty far down.  Not our sphere of influence, not a problem we can really solve in any case. It is good to do the right thing.  Wish Trump and the bulk of the GOP write not murderous criminals, but there ya go.

Legal-Stranger-4890

We have significant influence in the UAE, we could start there

Fantastic-Pop-439

The self-imposed collapse of the US is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. 

Due_Satisfaction2167

MiketheTzar

I’m torn up about it, but what can I do?

About 6 years ago, I started talking to a girl I met here on Reddit. She was beautiful and smart and somehow interested in me. But she lived in Malaysia, commuting to Singapore. 

A few weeks later, she told me she was being deported. To Sudan. A place she had never lived and didn’t speak the language. She was pretty scared. She said she was going to live with an uncle she had never spoken to before. 

About a month later, I finally heard from her. She said she was doing OK, but had been kind of forced into dating someone her uncle knew. I never heard from her again. 

It makes me sick thinking about what she’s still going through.

Cityplanner1

Do you think your conservative representative would agree to maintaining standards from the Biden era?  Would they be willing to do anything at all?  That’s who you need to ask

emp-sup-bry

Trump is literally the worst president to take over our country. I think we're more focused on fighting direct threats right now than we are abroad.

ComfortableWage

Because Israel has nothing to do with Sudan. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t focus on dire humanitarian situations. Only ones involving Israel. You are right it’s a problem, but people simply just don’t care.

Baconkings

There generally a lack of sophistication about Sudan domestic politics, the situation was complex, and there was no clear “good” side to support. The Humanitarian crisis also escalated to a level that defies conception incredibly quickly, so it took on the feeling of being somehow unreal, a similar thing happened with the situation in Tigri. Also, speaking just for the Americans here, a lot of us are kind of shell shocked, like we can’t handle another iota of despair and continue to function.

vgaph

I’m American, and I care. But we cannot help others who are drowning before we put a life jacket on ourselves. 

We have huge problems in the USA that are dire and need our unyielding attention RIGHT NOW. And we cannot do anything else until we defeat the rigging of elections, money in politics, and general moral drain that the right wing and authoritarians are trying to execute here.

RhinoKeepr

1. Israel/Palestine is taking up all the progressive activist oxygen  
2. Russia/Ukraine along with I/P is taking all the international oxygen  
3. There are no clear "Good Guys/Bad Guys" for people to sympathize with, just two petty warlords. It's a sad fact, but it seems like people would rather root for an active team than care about the (relatively) passive civilians. Maybe if one of the generals promises to invade Israel if he wins people might care more  
4. They're Africans, and to most Americans Africa is just the continent of constant wars, famines, and genocides to the point that no one really cares 95% of the time

So it's a mixture of general disinterest in African affairs (either out of racism or classism since Africa is by far the poorest continent and therefore not major trading partners worth thinking abbout) and there just being much bigger fish to fry.

Kellosian

Both_Woodpecker_3041

Dunno. Why do t you head over and ask the people supporting the spending of our tax dollars rounding up gardeners and gutting all of our diplomacy programs? Democrats liberals progressive have control of exactly zero parts of the federal govt and zero ability to do anything. And they’re doing their best to make sure you have a chance to vote in 3 years. 

Its like you’ve got your little brother pinned down making him hit himself with his own hand and asking home “why don’t you stop hitting yourself”

Herb4372

Because Israel isn’t involved , so there isn’t any marches , even when 5-6 times the amount of people die

extrasupermanly

Jswazy

It’s sick how imperial powers fuel wars and profit from civilian suffering. The UAE is the world’s second-largest gold exporter—but has no gold mines. A lot of that gold is smuggled from Sudan, where militias fund their war through the trade. The UAE buys the gold and reportedly arms those same groups. 

Then there’s Turkey, supplying drones and weapons mainly to the Sudanese government, all while trying to boost its influence and secure economic deals in the region. It’s all blood money—and the people caught in the middle pay the price.

CheyenneDove

So awful! They deserve the world's attention; glad the UK will host peace talks next week.

AlwaysReadyGo

The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries.

“Sudan is now worse off than ever before,” said Elise Nalbandian, Oxfam’s regional advocacy manager. “The largest humanitarian crisis, largest displacement crisis, largest hunger crisis … It’s breaking all sorts of wrong records.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)#:~:text=At%20least%2061%2C000%20people%20have,fled%20the%20country%20as%20refugees.

Casualties and losses
Likely significantly more than 150,000 total killed[38]
More than 522,000 children have died due to malnutrition[39]
8,856,313 internally displaced
3,506,383 refugees[40]

https://secure.unicef.ca/page/127641/donate/1?locale=en-US

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has put the lives of children and their families in danger. Millions have been forced to flee their homes making Sudan the biggest child displacement crisis in the world.    

Famine is present in at least five areas in Sudan, with a risk of spreading to 17 other areas. UNICEF estimates that approximately 3.2 million children under five will experience severe acute malnutrition in 2025.

jfrsn

The UN won’t do anything unless it’s to draft a resolution against Israel.

Life_Repeat310

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I'm sorry I don't see any Jewish people being part of this situation so I'm not interested. Let me know if we can link this to Israel so I can start caring.

Relative_Formal8976

The US has fully supported Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE’s genocides in Palestine, Yemen, and Sudan respectively. Giving the UAE weapons to commit atrocities in Sudan is just part of the cost of business for Biden and Trump to get them to agree to the Abraham Accords.

McKoijion

It’s a shame that nobody cares about Sudan.

thatsthejokememe

But what's the story here? In israel, you got occupiers vs natives. In ukrain you got big dictator vs small democracy.


But here? Here it's just black people killing other black people, for control. 


No story.

Effective_Jury4363

There's too many problems in the world; hard to know which crisis to focus on!

Having said that, Sudan doesn't seem to be getting enough attention in terms of how dire the situation is.

&gt;As of 18 June, 25.6 million people were reportedly suffering from acute food shortages. Of these, 756,000 people faced "catastrophic levels of hunger." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine\_in\_Sudan\_(2024%E2%80%93present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Sudan_(2024%E2%80%93present))

Sbeast

And we have old men in suits fighting over imaginary lines that belonged to one or the other thousands of years ago…

Left-Excitement-836

Surely college kids all over the West would express their disapproval of this and be outrageous about the crisis in Sudan. Any day now.

Wrld-Competitive

Why isn't the [African Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union) doing nothing?

5wmotor

Well with all the aid we sent to Africa over the years , doesn’t look it did any difference at all

gionatacar

According to Wesley Clark, a senior general showed him a memo that outlined a U.S. plan to “take out seven countries in five years.” The countries listed were:

1. Iraq

2. Syria

3. Lebanon

4. Libya

5. Somalia

6. Sudan

7. Iran

kra73ace

LectureLeft5183

Main-Entrepreneur841

SaneForCocoaPuffs

Samson_Betrayal

Yeah but… let’s start a war with Iran

vaynahtm

Are there suggestions on where one can donate?

ultimatelazer42

lauraddd16

Ya Allah please give them rahm, please give them justice, please protect them InshAllah ameen

BoboOctagon

Someone have contact with some NGO on the field for going there and a make some reportage ?!

Cybered1789

Genuine question here how can donations help if entry to food/aid is being blocked?

yourbagwhore

لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله، الله ينتقم من اللي كان السبب ويعجل بالفرج لاهل السودان وغزة

shrouk98

blackopsahlpha

Ibraheem77

I've looked into Sudan and the thing is it's just not very intellectually stimulating. It's typical two powerful generals form two sides of a conflict. There's no ideological aspect I can see. this is why people aren't talking about it. Whats to be said? It just really sad.

timmytissue

Unrest contained within borders will never be as big a world news story is an invasion, unrest that spills over the border, or unrest that *threatens* to spill over the border.

When asked, regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “why we’re deciding to care so much about *this* particular invasion” as opposed to “what's happening in Yemen, what's happening in Syria, what's happening in Ethiopia” Yuval Noah Harari on #[276](https://youtu.be/vTqOk19itfM?si=e-4C47dKxZIqPxfO&amp;t=400) replies:

&gt; Part of it is because, again, it's a different kind of war. Part of the global order of the last few generations, for better or worse, was that civil wars are part of the game, but invading and conquering other countries and wiping them off the map is not. And this is now what is at stake. And there is a huge difference there.

&gt; It's not that civil wars are okay. It's not that [in] civil wars people don't die in them or suffer in them. It's [that] we had throughout history several kinds of wars. External invasions and conquests were always the most dangerous and the kind of backbone of military and diplomatic history. But there were always other kinds of wars, like civil wars. And what happened in the last few generations is that, first of all, the big wars between superpowers, and secondly, the external invasions and conquests, they kind of get out of the picture—you don't do that anymore. Whereas civil wars, they continue to be part of the system.

&gt; And now we are seeing the return of something that we thought, well, we already got over that. Yes, we still have a way to go. We also need eventually to reach a situation when there are no civil wars. But now we are feeling that we are falling back. We are falling back to the most dangerous and most destructive kinds of wars. We are basically going back to the jungle, to the situation when at any moment the neighbors might invade and conquer us, which was the situation for most of history, but not in the last few decades.

So it's not about the amount of suffering in a given conflict. It's about whether the conflict represents a threat to global order or not. A) Pain contained within borders is one thing. But B) invaders from across the border *bringing* the pain is another. They're both bad, but B) unsettles the global order in a way A) does not. B) represents a "falling back" toward "the jungle".

Sudan is A) and Israel-Palestine is B). The India-Pakistan skirmishes are also B), which *also* makes them concerning for the same reasons Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Palestine are concerning.

croutonhero

Who cares if he does? 

People in this group don't even listen to what he says anyway and just bleat on about whatever horse they wanna flog.

DanielDannyc12

The only significant coverage on the crisis in Sudan that I've ever seen from anyone in western media is from Democracy Now, who have been covering the region for literally decades.  Of course, pro-Israel voices would never commend Democracy Now for this, because they also are one of the leading voices against the Gaza genocide.

metashdw

Full-Motor6497

It's just whataboutery. That's all it is. The same simple points can be made when people ask "whatabout Sudan?"

1) Western governments aren't arming one side in Sudan.

2) People on the internet aren't downplaying massacres in Sudan etc or taking one side and actively supporting warcrimes, massacres and ethnic cleansing.

It's very simply whataboutery raised in order to argue against any concerns about the ongoing death and misery.

Any_Platypus_1182

Honestly don't think Sam gives a F about Sudan, Yemen, Syria Civil Wars. Just a deflection tactic

Ordinary_Bend_8612

So let's really think this through. Why don't people pay attention to Sudan? Or more specifically, why do we focus on Israel and Palestine (or the Middle East in general) rather than Sudan? Because there are a lot of reasons.

1. The IP conflict is a little more global than Sudan is in the sense that it's history became one of many proxies for the Cold War. In 1941 Stalin adopted a pro-zionist stance to support the war effort against Germany (many Jews fled to the Soviet Union) and his hopes that a Jewish nation would be socialist. They were the first to recognize Israel and the SU and its satellite states all voted for the UN partition. Relations worsened almost immediately after 48 when Israel was established, but until '54 they were mostly neutral when they worsened until '55 when they ultimately backed the Arab states in the conflict. '67 marked them cutting off diplomatic ties to Israel altogether,

This opened the door for the US to exert influence in the region by creating a security alliance with Israel in '61, strengthening the bond between the two countries and with the US protecting Israel from the UN General assembly through its veto power. Basically, one of the geopolitical areas where the Cold War was waged was in the Middle East with the US, Germany, the UK, and France solidly on the side of Israel and the Soviet block on the other.

Sudan is not part of that long history, and Africa in general was never a focus of such global scrutiny because the stakes were never that high there, at least as it related to the larger geopolitical battles going on in the world. The West and Israel have become intertwined.

2. The Middle East is just a more important geopolitical area than Sudan or Africa in general. 

3. Sudan is *contained* to Sudan. IP has affected various countries around the world. 9/11, the Munich Olympics. The exporting of the conflict around the world to countries and nations that have supported Israel has kept both the conflict in the news through one of its belligerent groups. 9/11 doesn't happen without American foreign policy. The attempted bombing of the WTC doesn't happen, etc.

In other words, the IP conflict and what happens in the Middle East has direct consequences for people in the West. As such, we know a lot more about it from the media, and people will take sides and positions. 

It's also an issue ripe for ideological divisions, with one side viewing the formation of Israel as colonial and imperialistic, and the other viewing it as morally necessary for Jewish people to have a homeland, and that homeland being justified through their ancestral ties to the land.

The conflict in Sudan is tragic, but at its root its not a geopolitical problem, it's a civil one, and its so far removed from threatening geopolitical interests of us in the West that it doesn't get much attention.

schnuffs

Plus-Recording-8370

I would say they aren’t particularly comparable. there’s plenty of international condemnation of Sudan. 

here’s a big difference. There are significant financial and trade sanctions against Sudan. There are arms embargoes in place. If we’re saying “what about Sudan” i guess people are in favour of sanctions against Israel?

humungojerry

flatmeditation

That was a pretty stupid argument for him to make. I'd be impressed if he could even spot Sudan on a map. It works both ways too. There was much more media coverage over the tragedy of October 7th vs. the Darfur Genocide.

fuggitdude22

I've been wondering the same thing. It's time to make sense of other parts of the world.

thechurchkey

No, because Sam is not focusing on Israel because there is an ongoing genocide there. It’s hypocritical for people to focus on the “genocide” in Gaza while not caring at all about other actual genocides that are happening in other places. It is not hypocritical for Sam to focus on dispelling the idea of there being a genocide in Gaza.

Big swing and a miss with this one, chief.

Easylikeyoursister

OP’s logic is like someone who commits a criminal act uses the act of another criminal act as a defence .. this just goes to show that some folks are desperately trying to change the narrative .. no longer is it that Hamas is hiding in the hospitals fb using human shields or TV at Hamas is blocking aid, but hey what about Sudan.

Wizard-100

This is not equivalent. Sam is consistent on looking at social phenomenons, and the reaction to the Israel/Palestine conflict stands out as such.

Whereas the conflict itself, if people supposedly care about 'genocide', does not particularly stand out compared to other world conflicts.

The argument that people care more about it 'because the west is supportive of Israel' is not convincing at all. As if the West no longer being close to Israel would mean all the 'Free Palestine' activists would suddenly just not care much.

The Palestinian cause has been tied with socialist movements for decades, which is a driving force behind focusing attention on the conflict whether or not western nations support Israel or not.

ikinone

Ohh I know very well what it means, including genocide, but your response shows where u stand on both issues.  And it is amazing that you play victim while committing these acts.

As he's speaking about it, he is bringing it up.  Does he have to explain it in detail to the audience to show concern?  no.  To me he's bringing it up as you said, to emphasize that there is ALOT more focus on Israel-gaza, somewhat due to antisemitism, but also many other dynamics of the conflict.

Here is a little bit on Sudan from May.  NYT:

*The Rapid Support Forces grew in part out of the notorious* [*Janjaweed militias*](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/world/africa/sudan-darfur-janjaweed.html)*, which in the 2000s helped Sudan brutally suppress a rebellion in Darfur. That conflict prompted a different world tribunal, the International Criminal Court, to indict the longtime dictator, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2009. The military overthrew him a decade later, but he has not been turned over for prosecution.*

*The current* [*war in Sudan*](https://www.nytimes.com/article/sudan-khartoum-military.html) *began in April 2023, when the R.S.F. began clashing with Sudan’s military. Since then, the conflict has led to* [*widespread hunger*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/africa/sudan-usaid-famine.html) *and* [*famine*](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/africa/famine-declared-darfur-sudan-war.html)*, displaced nearly 13 million people and caused tens of thousands of deaths.*

*Both sides have been accused of committing war crimes and gross violations of human rights. The paramilitary group, led by Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, and its allies, have been accused of* [*committing ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/world/africa/sudan-rsf-genocide-us-sanctions.html) *against the non-Arab Masalit ethnic group. The army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has been accused of* [*using chemical weapons*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/world/africa/sudan-chemical-weapons-sanctions.html) *and* [*indiscriminately targeting civilians*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/world/africa/sudan-military-bombing-darfur.html)*.*

chenzen

African leaders seem to care more about the Palestine stuff than their own continent.

Sympathy starts at home. 

Izoto

Malora_Sidewinder

Work with many Sudan refugees.  Absolutely shocking the lack of coverage, lads tore limb from limb, women SA’d on a huge level, child soldiers the works. The people from there are so lovely too especially the young and women and even the men are some laugh and they have a great sense of humour and fashion. Love the Sudanese one day when the fighting stops I’ll visit.

Passagewestlad

The Jew haters of the world prefer to demonize Israel for defending itself from terrorists, mass murderers and rapists.  Right now the anti-Semites are glorifying the terrorist regime in Iran for blowing up a hospital.

B0wwsser

bayern_16

The world, Muslims, the far left only care if Israel is involved.

212Alexander212

The key is in your statement: there are no journalists there. This means it just doesn't get the same amount of reporting as say a quasi Western country like Israel whereby journalists can come in and stay, visit and live comfortably. Who wants to report from a warzone when you can be in a 5 star hotel in Tel Aviv ? all whilst they are shitting on Israel on the news, of course.

KLei2020


The humanitarian crisis in Sudan has been ongoing for decades. 

It was top news for many years, at least in Canada. Only someone new to adulthood will have missed the years of news coverage, the debates in government and news stories addressing the thousands of traumatized Canadian vets who were sent to help.

tulipvonsquirrel

Pope Leo XIV has called for international aid in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, exacerbated by a devastating landslide in the Darfur region.

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