Democracy crushed

The clashes began last April in Khartoum, Sudan’s vast capital, pitting the loyal troops of Chief of Staff, General Al-Burhan, against the leader of a paramilitary militia, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti. It’s a merciless fight for power between two men whose commonality is having crushed the hopes of a democratic revolution in Sudan.

Most of these countries already have their own problems.

In just over two months, the UNHCR’s assessment is grim: 2.5 million people have been displaced by the fighting in the Darfur and Kordofan regions. 560,000 of them have taken refuge in neighboring countries: Egypt, Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Most of these countries already have their own problems, like Ethiopia, which is struggling to emerge from an atrocious war in the Tigray province and has its own humanitarian issues.

Fleeing combat zones is no simple matter: according to the UNHCR, many displaced people and refugees risk their lives as they try to seek safety within or beyond their country’s borders.

The UN's humanitarian plan for Sudan is only funded at less than 20% of its needs. And this is where information, or lack thereof, becomes a factor. There’s no shortage of money for Ukraine, but an invisible conflict like Sudan's suffers a double penalty.

This is obviously short-sighted, since today’s unassisted refugees will want to try their luck on the immigration road, and will become tomorrow's political problem.

The world is in such turmoil that the United Nations is struggling to carry out their humanitarian work, and is hindered in its attempt to bring back peace to these war zones. Attempts at mediation have all failed. Yet this is where all solutions lie.

What the victims of Kramatorsk and Khartoum have in common is the barbaric regression of our current world ; the difference is that the former rightly make the headlines, while the latter are unjustly ignored.