Sudan Crisis

Saw something on it the other day. Rape is apparently routine. Horrific stuff all round.

Where are the musical groups highlighting this atrocity? Maybe it's not popular enough.

Not sure why this isn't as newsworthy as Gaza or Ukraine.

But I suppose only the media outlets can answer this?

Possibly because people are jaded of all these local wars?

It's yet another tribal and ethnic civil war that's almost impossible to prevent which is probably why no one wants to intercede. And sadly almost a routine state of affairs in many parts of Africa. Which might explain why it's not on the front pages every day compared to Gaza and Ukraine.

Much of Africa is a basket case. The EU would be bonkers to try and do anything, or anything more then already being done…there are multiple pathetic wars and conflicts of various scales across that continent. Hand in hand with mass government corruption, mass crime, violence .. all manner of grim goings on. We shouldn’t be concerning ourselves.

Politicians and citizens of the EU should be focusing on improving our lot and addressing our own challenges. Never mind anyone else.

When it's black people killing each other nobody cares. And when it's been funded by an Arab state nobody calls it out. Yemen got scant coverage despite being absolutely horrific.

It seems Qatar, Saudi Arabia,and Dubai get a free pass when it comes to funding/assisting shady groups. I remember when Bibi assured Joe Hamas members in Qatar would not be targeted shortly after the October 7th attacks. It barely got any coverage. The US could end what is happening in some of these conflict zones but they won't bring allies to heal whether it's Dubai, Qatar or Israel.

While I do empathise with that thought process. It's just simply too disconnected a conflict from Ireland.

To keep keep things specific to Ireland Israel/Palestine is front and centre due to colonial involvement and continued support of America and the UK. Two countries Ireland has close links and history with.

Then you've Russia/Ukraine an invasion basically on the EU's doorstep so again it has that almost local link in geopolitical terms.

The situation in Sudan then is basically a civil war after a power vacuum from the coup a few years ago. There's nothing really in Ireland to protest or boycott or apply social/moral pressure to that could have any impact on the situation there. No tangible local link.

To keep keep things specific to Ireland Israel/Palestine is front and centre due to colonial involvement and continued support of America and the UK. Two countries Ireland has close links and history with.

Not because of greater colonial involvement: the British Empire’s involvement with Palestine began after WW1 and ended in 1948, so barely 30 years.

Sudan OTOH was a British possession from 1899 until 1956. Nearly 6 decades. So that doesn’t explain the disinterest.

And not US involvement either: the US has been far more involved in the hell on earth that is Haiti these days, including ruling it directly by martial law for some years (at the request of a US bank) and manipulating it behind the scenes for decades after that, but it seems nobody in Ireland cares about Haiti.

It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that it’s simply No Jews No News. Which is bizarre for Ireland given how few Jews there are here.

To get back to Sudan, yes it seems there’s a real disaster happening there:

Nearly 40 percent of children under five in al-Fashir are now acutely malnourished, with 11 percent suffering from severe acute malnutrition

But it’s not necessary to pick sides to want to help the civilians who are caught up in what is basically gang warfare.

It’s sounds like you think the only reason to take an interest in a foreign conflict is to cheer on “our side”. If there’s no “right side” should we throw up our hands and tell them to get on with raping women and starving children?

(There’s a similar problem in Haiti, FWIW.)

It's possible for two things to be wrong; Arabs funding terrorism is wrong, as is

Israel engaging in state terrorism in the West Bank. You should be appalled that a convicted terrorist is still part of the Israeli government, but due to your cowardice you can't be seen to criticise Israel . Well done on using the Sudanese conflict to deflect from criticising Israel.

That is true, what do you want to be done about it all?

It is kicking off in Angola too. Not a good time to be a Chinese person over there.

Wonder where Paul Murphy is? Perhaps, he should pay DRC a visit? Help bring attention to the issue?

Will he ****, hell will freeze over first.