🌍Sudan's "forgotten war" displaces 12 million as Trump freezes all humanitarian aid
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Sudan's civil war between the SAF and RSF has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with 30.4 million people—over half the population—needing aid, the UN reported July 14, 2025. Over 12 million are internally displaced, 25 million face acute food insecurity, and famine was confirmed in Darfur. The Trump administration's 90-day USAID freeze in January closed hundreds of soup kitchens, while the RSF committed genocide against ethnic minorities, killing 300+ civilians in village massacres.
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- <ul><li><strong>Sudan crisis dwarfs Ukraine and Gaza combined yet receives zero media coverage or international attention</strong>: Thirty million Sudanese need aid versus 17 million Ukrainians and 2.3 million Gazans
- but American news networks ignore the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe. Media coverage follows geopolitical interests rather than human suffering
- leaving millions invisible when they lack strategic value to powerful nations.</li><li><strong>American weapons flow to both warring sides while humanitarian aid remains frozen during confirmed famine</strong>: The UAE and Egypt channel U.S. arms to opposing forces while Trump blocks food assistance to starving civilians. This replicates Cold War proxy patterns where superpowers fuel conflicts while preventing humanitarian solutions that might reduce their strategic influence.</li><li><strong>Cutting food aid during famine constitutes crimes against humanity under international law established after World War II</strong>: The Geneva Conventions specifically prohibit using starvation as warfare tactic against civilian populations. Trump's USAID freeze violates legal prohibitions developed after Holocaust documentation showed how dictators weaponize hunger to commit genocide against targeted populations.</li><li><strong>Rapid Support Forces commit systematic genocide against ethnic minorities while international community remains silent</strong>: The RSF's Darfur massacres follow identical patterns from the 2003-2010 genocide that killed 300
- 000 civilians. International failure to intervene during previous Sudanese genocide established precedent for allowing systematic ethnic cleansing when victims lack geopolitical importance to major powers.</li></ul>
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Why This Matters
The world's worst humanitarian crisis gets zero media coverage while millions starve
Sudan's 30 million in need dwarfs Ukraine (17 million) and Gaza (2.3 million) combined—yet remains invisible.
Trump's aid freeze directly caused starvation deaths as soup kitchens closed
Cutting food aid during confirmed famine conditions constitutes a crime against humanity under international law.
U.S. weapons fuel both sides through UAE and Egypt while blocking food aid
American arms sales to regional allies end up with warring factions while humanitarian aid gets frozen.
Contact USAID at 202-712-0000 demanding immediate restoration of food assistance
Every day of frozen aid means preventable deaths from starvation in refugee camps.
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The ____ war between the ____ and ____ has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
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