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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Archie Bland

Monday briefing: Charting the forgotten crisis in Sudan

Sudanese refugees in Renk on 13 February.
Sudanese refugees in Renk on 13 February. Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images

Good morning. “There is a certain kind of obscenity about the humanitarian world, which is the competition of suffering,” the UN’s aid chief, Martin Griffiths, said this month. “We must not forget Sudan.”

But with international attention largely focused on Gaza and Ukraine, that is exactly what’s happening. Tens of thousands have been killed in the civil war that broke out last year between the Sudanese army and the RSF militia, and there are now more displaced people – and specifically more displaced children – than in any other country in the world.

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