The Biden-Harris administration is desperate to appear helpful in Sudan, where the situation has worsened significantly over the past week and Médecins Sans Frontières has moved to safety from disease-ridden, famine-ravaged refugee camps. It was no longer possible to operate the facility, so it had to be abandoned.
Some humanitarian groups complained that the administration had ignored Sudan until the headlines became too embarrassing in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
It seems hard to overlook the brutal Sudanese civil war. worst Humanitarian disasters on earth replace Since its launch in April 2023, it has reached over 7 million users.
More than any other currently raging conflict, both sides of the Sudanese civil war have intentionally It resulted in starvation and homelessness for vast numbers of civilians. The people of Sudan are not mere collateral damage; their suffering is the result of a deliberate strategy.
There is little hope for a ceasefire as the two rival leaders, former coup partners Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagro, have vowed to fight until the other dies.
Mr. Burhan is the commander of Sudan's military, while Mr. Daglo heads the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group. The two sides have fought to a de facto stalemate. Civilian casualties continue to rise – Burhan Army killed On Sunday, a bombing raid on an RSF-run market in the capital Khartoum killed 23 civilians, but the front did not move much.
On Friday, Médecins Sans Frontières, known by its French acronym MSF, announced The Sudanese army has cut off supplies to the Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur, forcing the government to suspend operations at the camp as the RSF has besieged the area for months.
The camp is near the city of al-Fashir, the last stronghold of Burhan's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Darfur. Approximately 800,000 civilians, including local residents and refugees, are caught in the crossfire.
“We endured more than 45 days of attacks and endless shelling. They shelled our neighborhoods. They shelled areas in our neighborhoods. It became a miserable life. …It is very easy to die in El Fachel City,” one resident said. said ABC News last week.
MSF said it was “heartbreaking” to end support for Zam Zam camp, which has sick and starving residents, including 5,000 malnourished children.
The medical charity said many other facilities in Sudan were also experiencing problems, with staff “being humiliated, harassed and assaulted while on duty”. MSF facilities “have been repeatedly looted, occupied and shelled.”
“We are truly concerned that thousands of children will be left alone to die if nothing is done. We need massive and urgent scale-up now. The people of Sudan cannot wait. ,” said MSF spokesperson Claire San Filippo.
“We're not talking about an emergency anymore. We're talking about a nightmare,” she said. said.
FOX NEWS MONDAY reported Humanitarian groups have also complained about the Biden-Harris administration's sudden involvement in Sudan, which, in Fox's words, is “a classic case of too little, too late.”
Cameron Hudson, former director of Africa affairs at the National Security Council and current senior fellow at the center, said, “The administration has been working at the 11th hour to try to improve the situation, especially because the humanitarian situation is so desperate.'' “There is,” he said. Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“Two million Sudanese could die of starvation before he leaves office,” Hudson said of President Joe Biden.
“Biden's promises to Africa to raise Africa's prominence on the world stage will ring even more hollow if he does not take immediate meaningful action to address this dire situation before he leaves office,” Hudson said. Probably,” he added.
The Biden-Harris administration continues to fight a losing battle with China and Russia for influence in Africa. investment and military protection to developing countries without the moral strings that come with US or European aid.
Mr. Biden held a glitzy African summit in 2022, an impressive accomplishment that demonstrated how important Africa is to U.S. foreign policy, but as Mr. Hudson pointed out, China and Russia Mr. Biden's promises rang hollow compared to the concrete investments he has made in the United States. Biden also thwarted some of the goodwill gained by taking advantage of some. disappointing comment To the visiting African leaders.
In his final speech to the U.S. General Assembly last month, Biden sought to address Sudan's fears by simply telling both sides to “stop blocking aid to the Sudanese people.” Unsurprisingly, it didn't work.
“This petition comes more than 15 months after he last publicly addressed the conflict and does not demonstrate consistent involvement in the world's largest conflict,” Hudson noted. .
“Rather than devoting valuable attention to negotiations that are unlikely to result in real change on the ground, the administration should instead focus its efforts on increasing access to humanitarian aid and saving as many lives as possible before leaving office.” would be wise,” he said. he suggested.
uk guardian provided Friday's dismal post-mortem into US diplomacy in Sudan's Forgotten War shows little interest in Sudan's warring military junta princes' impassioned pleas for a cessation of fighting, with international sanctions and He also pointed out that he did not seem concerned about unusually malicious operations against civilians. It is difficult to respond to a crisis with large sums of money and humanitarian aid.
guardian Columnist Simon Jenkins feels that there is no way to resolve Sudan's misery through military intervention, and just as civilized nations are lining up to do so, Washington has European There will undoubtedly be little appetite for such a solution in the nation's capital. The brutality of the Haitian civil war.
The problem is that such humanitarian intervention is the only real benefit that Western countries can offer African people. This is an area where the West clearly has an edge over the ruthless tyranny of Moscow and Beijing. Mr. Burhan and Mr. Dagalo seem intent on fighting until the last Sudanese child dies of starvation. One reason for this is that the leaders of each belligerent side are well aware of what the other side will do if they lose.
