The Biden-Harris administration is scrambling to look useful in Sudan, where conditions deteriorated so much in the past week that Doctors Without Borders had to abandon a disease-riddled and famine-ravaged refugee camp because it could no longer operate safely.
Some humanitarian groups complained the administration ignored Sudan until the headlines became too embarrassing in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
The brutal Sudanese civil war would seem hard to miss, having created one of the worst humanitarian calamities on the planet and displacing over seven million people since it began in April 2023.
More than almost any other conflict currently raging, both sides of the Sudanese civil war have deliberately inflicted starvation and homelessness on huge numbers of civilians. The people of Sudan are not just collateral damage – their suffering is deliberate strategy.
There is little hope of a ceasefire, as the two feuding leaders – former coup partners Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo – have vowed to keep fighting until the other is dead.
Burhan is the general in command of the Sudanese army, while Daglo leads the paramilitary Rapid…
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