Over half of Sudan’s population, more than 30 million people, urgently need humanitarian assistance according to the UN, so where is the global outcry? Where are the headlines? And where is the help the Sudanese people desperately need? Mehdi speaks to Nesrine Malik, an award-winning British Sudanese columnist for the Guardian, and Niemat Ahmadi, leader of the Darfur Women Action Group, to find out why the atrocities in Sudan are so neglected.
“Many people have died in silence,” says Ahmadi, a survivor of the 2003 Darfur genocide herself, “People walk into Tawila [town in Darfur], and when they come there, women will remove their children from their backs only to realize that these children are dead.” Sudan’s suffering is not limited to war, displacement, and hunger, but also to diseases. As of August, there have been 99,700 suspected cases of cholera and more than 2,470 cholera-related deaths. …..more
