Tablet features – civil war in Sudan

More than 25 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Thirteen million displaced from their homes, of whom three million have fled to neighbouring countries, themselves some of the poorest nations in the world. An estimated 150,000 people dead. Homes looted and destroyed, mosques and churches desecrated, cities reduced to rubble, hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, archives, the National Museum and the important genetic seed vault ransacked and damaged. It is now considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. And yet the conflict which began in Sudan in April 2023 is rarely mentioned in the international media, overshadowed by reporting and commentary on the tragic wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

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