Ongoing conflict in Sudan

[Tigers!]

My sister is a midwife with an NGO just below the Sudan-South Sudan border.
Since late April there has been another surge of refugees south fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are pouring past their compound in Pibor, Sudan in increasing numbers.
Power-struggle-Sudan
There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

Unless a European country or Jews are involved we really do not seem to pay much attention.,

 

[BH]

I hate to say it but what happens in Sudan really doesn't affect people in the West on a large scale. There are lots of Israeli citizens with family in Europe or the USA and the Ukraine war will be a big deal simply because Russia is involved in it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No Jews to blame for Muslim misdeeds. Not first world. Thus there's nobody to blame and it gets ignored.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I thought forcibly separating South Sudan fixed everything.

 

[Derec]

There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

No Jews, no news.
You would not think Columbia students would give a wet fart for Sudan right? Sudanese don't even have terrorist-chiq shawls they can wrap themselves in when they break into Hamilton Hall ...

 

[Tigers!]

I thought forcibly separating South Sudan fixed everything.

That separated the Muslim north from the Christian/animist south but still not stop inter-religious or racial or ethnic disputes from continuing or new ones beginning.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

My sister is a midwife with an NGO just below the Sudan-South Sudan border.
Since late April there has been another surge of refugees south fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are pouring past their compound in Pibor, Sudan in increasing numbers.
Power-struggle-Sudan
There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

Unless a European country or Jews are involved we really do not seem to pay much attention.,

No, where the heck have you been? Rwanda anyone? I suppose the problem with Africa is two fold, not only is there a huge amount of indifference, it was European nations that drew up the lines, created the dissension in the first place. And the solutions aren't exactly pluckable from trees.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

No Jews, no news.
You would not think Columbia students would give a wet fart for Sudan right? Sudanese don't even have terrorist-chiq shawls they can wrap themselves in when they break into Hamilton Hall ...

Derec needlessly mentions Hamilton Hall... *drink*

 

[Tigers!]

My sister is a midwife with an NGO just below the Sudan-South Sudan border.
Since late April there has been another surge of refugees south fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are pouring past their compound in Pibor, Sudan in increasing numbers.
Power-struggle-Sudan
There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

Unless a European country or Jews are involved we really do not seem to pay much attention.,

No, where the heck have you been? Rwanda anyone? I suppose the problem with Africa is two fold, not only is there a huge amount of indifference, it was European nations that drew up the lines, created the dissension in the first place. And the solutions aren't exactly pluckable from trees.

The Europeans did not do a good job with the boundaries at all.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I thought forcibly separating South Sudan fixed everything.

That was an exercise in feelgoodism. The genocide continued.

Although this is something new--it's Iranian backed forces doing the genocide.

 

[bilby]

My sister is a midwife with an NGO just below the Sudan-South Sudan border.
Since late April there has been another surge of refugees south fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are pouring past their compound in Pibor, Sudan in increasing numbers.
Power-struggle-Sudan
There has been much commentary about the Gaza conflict and Ukraine (and rightly so) but the conflict in Sudan rarely gets a mention.
I am puzzled as to why. Is this conflict not important enough?

Unless a European country or Jews are involved we really do not seem to pay much attention.,

No, where the heck have you been? Rwanda anyone? I suppose the problem with Africa is two fold, not only is there a huge amount of indifference, it was European nations that drew up the lines, created the dissension in the first place. And the solutions aren't exactly pluckable from trees.

The Europeans did not do a good job with the boundaries at all.

Sure they did. They almost completely avoided a European war over who got what bits. Well, apart from the Great War, but that was mostly about fairly trivial European issues, rather than colonial disputes. The Germans were a bit miffed about how little they got, but Kaiser Bill was prone to being miffed regardless.

The boundaries completely disregarded the people who lived there, but that was completely intentional. The various imperial and colonial officials did a very good job, within the scope of their task. They just didn't grasp (and/or care about) the implications for people outside Europe.

What business do Africans have, with regards to the borders of British, French, Belgian, German or Italian colonies? If they were keen to have a say, they should have built a modern Navy, with Dreadnaughts and such.

 

[Gospel]

Can we add Haiti to this NGAF list?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I thought forcibly separating South Sudan fixed everything.

That was an exercise in feelgoodism. The genocide continued.

Although this is something new--it's Iranian backed forces doing the genocide.

I hadn't realized this was a UAE v Iran thing. Nice to see other nations fucking things up for a change.