Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-190-august-14.html
ANOTHER WAR: SUDAN
As soon as I read the latest Tomgram in July, I thought to place it in WWW, and wondered about the causes of the Sudan disaster, and US involvement. I hoped the UN’s diverse agencies were still helping despite their small budgets. The UN Security Council voted to withdraw its UNITAMS mission there (Russia abstaining), but the UN is keeping some of its humanitarian agencies. Below is the google response to my “UN in Sudan” search and a message I had received from UNFPA in April. From these reports, I learn of UN desperately needed assistance in Sudan, and I infer the urgent need for increased UN funding especially for UN Peacekeepers. –Dick
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“Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, The Missing War.”
July 30, 2024
You couldn’t make these things up. I’m thinking about Oxfam’s recent 66-page report on Israel’s devastation of Gaza’s water supplies. . . . Or consider the accounts of how, in one 10-day period, Israeli forces attacked six U.N.-run schools (most of which are now housing refugees from elsewhere in the devastated Gaza Strip). Or the U.N. report suggesting that the rebuilding of all the homes destroyed in the last nine-plus months of Israel’s war on that 25-mile strip of land could take (and this is not a misprint) 80 years if the pace were the same as after the two previous wars there!
And that’s just to choose almost random information among all the horrific news that’s been pouring out of Gaza over the last months. But here’s the truly strange thing, a war — a civil war, in fact — no less horrific has been going on in Sudan for five months longer than in Gaza and when was the last time you read anything about it? What information could you cite about it? Just think about that for a moment. Had I not read today’s piece by TomDispatch regulars Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox before writing this introduction, I don’t think I could have offered you any similar examples of the nightmare that is now Sudan. As they label that conflict today, it’s the missing war. . . . Tom
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Starvation in Sudan: As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate”
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox.
For months, we’ve all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that’s gotten so little coverage you could be excused for not knowing anything about it. What we have in mind is the seemingly never-ending, utterly devastating war in Sudan. Think of it as the missing war. And if we don’t start paying a lot more attention to it soon — as in right now — it’s going to be too late.
After 15 months of fighting in that country between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), experts in food insecurity estimate that almost 26 million people (no, that is not a misprint!), or more than half of Sudan’s population, could suffer from malnutrition by September. Eight and a half million of those human beings could face acute malnutrition. Worse yet, if the war continues on its present path, millions will die of hunger and disease in just the coming months (and few people in our world may even notice). Click here to read more of this dispatch.
And Google United Nations in Sudan.
United Nations in Sudan – the United Nations
Insecurity is making humanitarian access to Sudan’s most food-insecure state nearly impossible. WFP urgently requires US$410 million for its operations in Sudan …
Dr. Shible Sahbani is from Morocco and is a medical …
In Sudan, over 10 million people — 20 per cent of the population …
The United Nations in Sudan … The United Nations Country …
Video. 15 April 2024. Message by the UN Secretary-General for …
UN Entities in Sudan. FAO. The Food and Agriculture …
The United Nations Is Not Leaving the Sudan
https://www.un.org › un-chronicle › united-nations-not-l…
Jan 19, 2024 — Over 7.3 million people had been displaced inside the Sudan and into neighbouring countries. As more people flee across the borders, host …
Conflict Between Warring Parties in Sudan Pushing Millions to …
UN Press https://press.un.org › sc15634.doc.htm
Mar 20, 2024 — Conflict between warring parties in Sudan is driving a hunger crisis dangerously approaching famine for millions of people, senior United …
As of April 23, 2024, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) had up to 10,000 military personnel, including 750 military observers, as well as other personnel: 715 civilian police, 1,018 international civilian staff, 2,623 national staff, and 214 UN Volunteers.
Sudan Alert, USA FOR UNFPA Thu, Aug 1, 2024
UN Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency
James — The deteriorating emergency in Sudan is putting women and girls lives on the line.
“They came in and pointed a gun at me,” 17-year-old Aisha painfully recounted to our team there. “They told me not to scream or say anything – then they began to take off my clothes. One soldier held the gun while the other raped me, and then they took turns.” The horror didn’t end there for Aisha, who lost both of her parents in the conflict. She shared with us, “The next day, they came back with two more soldiers and repeated the assault.” They would not leave Aisha’s home for four days. . . .
The violence and devastation in Sudan cannot be overstated. Millions have been pushed towards catastrophic levels of hunger, and attackers are using desperation to their advantage. Sexual violence has been wielded as a weapon of war, indiscriminate of age and devoid of mercy. Time is running out for millions of Sudanese women and girls who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their homes, and living under constant fear of violence. Hundreds of thousands of people — even as many as 2.5 million, according to one estimate — could die of starvation by the end of this year. Your gifts are delivering lifesaving care and protection to the women and girls left most vulnerable in Sudan’s ongoing crisis. Already, your support has reached more than 600,000 survivors of violence like Aisha with care, like safe shelter, counseling, and clinical treatment for rape. You’ve also helped deploy 52 mobile health teams to provide prenatal and maternal health services to the 1.2 million pregnant and nursing women in this crisis. 72,000 UNFPA Dignity Kits containing menstrual products and personal care items have also been distributed. . . .
Thank you. — USA FOR UNFPA