Sudan is experiencing a combined genocide and famine crisis, with famine officially declared and the U.N. estimating about 25 million people facing extreme hunger. At least 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes because of civil war. A U.S. envoy estimated the death toll has exceeded 400,000. Both recent U.S. administrations have labeled the killings as genocide, yet political responses have been largely passive and aid cuts risk increasing child starvation. Regional actors have often aggravated suffering, and the U.N.'s responsibility-to-protect language has not translated into sufficient action.
As debate boils over allegations of genocide in the Gaza Strip, there's another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway yet largely ignore it. That's Sudan, probably the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis today. Famine was officially declared there last year; the United Nations reports that some 25 million Sudanese face extreme hunger and at least 12 million have had to flee their homes because of civil war.
In January, the Biden administration officially declared the killing in Sudan to be a genocide. In April, the Trump administration also characterized the slaughter as a genocide, and the State Department confirmed that it views the situation in Sudan as a genocide. So there is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it.
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