"Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you'll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. It's one we don't hear much about in the United States, probably because it's happening in an African nation, one of those places Donald Trump refers to as "shithole countries." (Interestingly, another of the places he included under that designation during his first term in office was El Salvador, which is run by his new BDF-Best Dictator Friend-Nayib Bukele."
"The place I'm talking about is the nation directly south of Egypt and across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia: Sudan. It's big -the 15th-largest country in the world and the third-largest in Africa-with an area a quarter the size of the United States and around 50 million inhabitants. Its name derives from the Arabic for "Land of the Blacks." The population is 70 percent Arab, with the remainder being mostly of northern and eastern African descent."
Sudan, located directly south of Egypt and across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia, is experiencing extensive violence, mass displacement, and severe food shortages. Around 45 percent of the population—21.2 million people—are facing the highest levels of acute food insecurity, with famine confirmed in at least two cities and two dozen areas on the verge of it. Ongoing fighting since 2019 has displaced at least 12 million people and has drained food stocks, with conditions expected to worsen next year. The scale of hunger and displacement in Sudan far exceeds that of neighboring Gaza in absolute numbers.
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