2024-09-02
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The war in Sudan has received a fraction of the attention given to Gaza and Ukraine,
yet it threatens to be deadlier than either conflict.
Africa's third largest country is ablaze.
Its capital city has been razed.
Perhaps 150,000 people have been slaughtered and bodies are piling up in makeshift cemeteries visible from space.
More than 10 million people, a fifth of the population,
have been forced to flee from their homes.
A famine looms that could be deadlier than Ethiopia's in the 1980s.
Some estimate that 2.5 million civilians could die by the end of the year.
As our report from Inside the Country explains,
it is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and also a geopolitical time bomb.
Sudan's size and location make it an engine of chaos beyond its borders.
Middle Eastern states and Russia are sponsoring the belligerence with impunity.
The West is disengaged.
The UN is paralysed.