Sudan – A fratricidal war has been raging in Sudan for 16 months, with international silence, creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, away from the cameras where the suffering of Sudanese children does not arouse public outrage or sympathy, and where massacres, mass displacement and famine continue unabated, according to Lopes magazine.
The magazine explained – in a report by Sarah Daniel – that the capital, Khartoum, was destroyed by war, as mass graves appear in satellite images, after about 150,000 people were killed and more than 10 million fled their homes.
The magazine pointed out that the famine here could be more deadly than the one Ethiopia witnessed in the 1980s, and that without immediate, comprehensive, large-scale and coordinated action, the country will witness tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.
The magazine quoted Othman Belbeisi, the regional director of the International Organization for Migration, affiliated with the United Nations, as saying, “We are on the brink of collapse, and it is a catastrophic collapse,” in this war that has been raging since April 2023 between the regular army led by Abdel Fattah Abdel Rahman Al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces affiliated with his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The magazine warned that there is a fear of dividing the lands between two governments, each with its own army, as is the case in Libya, especially since each camp finds support from foreign countries. The UAE provides ammunition and drones to the Rapid Support Forces, Iran and Egypt arm the Sudanese army, and Russia deploys mercenaries to secure gold mines.
The newspaper believed that Sudan’s geographical location and size would fuel chaos outside its borders, and would cause an influx of refugees. The collapse of a country with an 800-kilometer coastline on the Red Sea would threaten the Suez Canal, the main artery of global trade, and could become a haven for terrorists.
The magazine referred to what was published by the British newspaper The Economist, that “the massacre will get worse,” as “satellite image analysis shows a country on fire, with farms and crops burned, people eating grass and leaves, and between 6 and 10 million people may die of famine by 2027.”
Despite this horrific picture, there is little chance that this situation will raise the concern of international public opinion and its diplomats in time, because the world is accustomed to chaos, according to Sarah Daniel.
Source: Lopes
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2024-09-05 01:00:09
