Sudan’s Forgotten Conflict with Reva Dhingra and Ciarán Donnelly
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
One year ago, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In the intervening months, the death toll and humanitarian cost have been immense.
And yet, the suffering has gone largely overlooked by the United States and European nations. As U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield recently said, “Just five years after a revolution that offered a glimpse at a free, peaceful, democratic Sudan, people are losing hope. Aid workers have begun calling this conflict the forgotten war. Sudanese children are asking why the world has forgotten them.”
To learn more, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Reva Dhingra, a Policy Adviser at the International Rescue Committee, and Ciarán Donnelly, a Senior Vice President for International Programs, also at the IRC. They discussed the roots of the current conflict, the spillover effects, and the exacerbating effects of climate change. They also heard about what Ciarán saw on his recent trip to the Sudan-Chad border.
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| 0:30.0 | But the reality for people who find themselves in camps like this is that they're very likely to be there for the long haul. |
| 0:42.0 | As I said, there's 400,000 Sudanese who've been in |
| 0:44.8 | Chad in camps for for almost 20 years now. There's very poor prospects of them being able |
| 0:51.8 | to return home, |
| 0:53.0 | given the state of the conflict and the impact it's having on Sudan |
| 0:57.0 | anytime soon. |
| 0:58.0 | And so it's a very grim prospect for these people who are finding themselves through obviously no fault of their own uprooted |
| 1:05.9 | from their lives, forced to flee in very dangerous circumstances and then dropped into these very |
| 1:11.6 | hostile and underserved refugee camps. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Tyler McBrien, managing editor of Lawfair, and this is the Lawfair Podcast, April 18, 2024. |
| 1:23.6 | One year ago, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rapid |
| 1:27.8 | support forces. |
| 1:29.6 | In the intervening months, the death toll and humanitarian cost had been immense and yet the suffering has |
| 1:34.6 | gone largely overlooked by the United States and European nations as US |
| 1:38.3 | Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield recently said quote just five years after a revolution that offered a |
| 1:44.3 | glimpse at a free peaceful democratic Sudan, people are losing hope. Aid workers have |
| 1:49.2 | begun calling this conflict the forgotten war. Sudanese children are asking why the world has forgotten them." |
| 1:55.0 | To learn more, I sat down with Rayva Dingra, a policy advisor at the International Rescue |
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