Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Starvation in Sudan As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate by Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, The Missing War
https://tomdispatch.com/starvation-in-sudan/#more
Starvation in Sudan
As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox
For months, we've all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that's gotten so little coverage you could be excused for not knowing anything about it. What we have in mind is the seemingly never-ending, utterly devastating war in Sudan. Think of it as the missing war. And if we don't start paying a lot more attention to it soon -- as in right now -- it's going to be too late.
After 15 months of fighting in that country between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), experts in food insecurity estimate that almost 26 million people (no, that is not a misprint!), or more than half of Sudan’s population, could suffer from malnutrition by September. Eight and a half million of those human beings could face acute malnutrition. Worse yet, if the war continues on its present path, millions will die of hunger and disease in just the coming months (and few people in our world may even notice).
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