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We are calling on the Australian Government to double its contribution to the humanitarian emergency fund, from $150 million to $300 million, to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people impacted by the massive increase in emergencies, conflicts and disasters that have unfolded around the world in recent years.
So many double standards. So much hypocrisy. Biden and Blinken can’t lie straight in bed
50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determinationOpens in a new tab related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
Blinken responded with a determination that the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces were guilty. “Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,”
Source: State Dept Finds ”Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Refuses in Gaza
In a way, Hemedti and Al-Burhan will continue to fight for the “I am Sudan” motto, rather than for democracy and Sudan’s future. Each one of them believes he has the right to decide when and how any democratic transition should happen when, in fact, both are only repeating the vicious cycle of military rule and its disastrous consequences.
Source: The ‘I am Sudan’ Motto and the elusive Transition to Democracy
What is going on in Sudan?
Source: Sudan crisis Explained: What’s behind the latest Fighting and its Roots in the Past
The normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan, publicly announced on Oct. 23, has been on the horizon for several years now. News reports from the past weeks have consistently portrayed the normalization deal as a story about a staunch enemy of Israel abandoning its old ways and turning into a friend. The Khartoum Summit of 1967, in which Arab leaders called for “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiation with Israel,” has been repeatedly invoked by commentators to support this narrative.
Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming
Our allies in the Middle East fighting against Democracy (ODT)
via Revolutionary Sudan granted bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy
Top 10 most under-reported crises in 2017:
- North Korea: Food shortages and oppression
- Eritrea: Drought and repression
- Burundi: Persecution and violence
- Sudan: War and food shortages
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Conflict and displacement
- Mali: Violence and malnutrition
- Vietnam: Typhoon Doksuri
- Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria): Conflict, hunger and displacement
- Central African Republic: Violence, displacement and food shortages
- Peru: Floods
via The forgotten crises: the humanitarian emergencies the world ignored in 2017
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