There is the war in Ukraine, there is the war in Gaza and there is the civil war in Sudan. However, very few people are likely to have heard of the latter, even though it is currently the world's biggest humanitarian crisis.
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"We cannot allow people to be killed in a barbaric manner on a continent that is historically connected to us, nor can we accept that tens of thousands of people are fleeing to neighbouring countries, especially to Chad. We can make a contribution when help is needed."
True words that are still relevant, but were spoken quite a long time ago. However, they were said 20 years ago by none other than Luc Frieden, who was Minister of Defence at the time. At the time, it was about the Darfur conflict, where you might remember that Arab, pro-government nomadic horsemen were brutally hunting down black Africans.
Since then, the situation in Sudan has not improved, on the contrary! Tens of thousands of refugees have now been killed, while twelve million people are on the run and more than half of the Sudanese population – around 25 million people – are threatened by hunger. The United Nations is currently talking about the world's biggest humanitarian crisis.
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