South Sudan Starving As Global Headlines Focus Elsewhere
Al Jazeera highlights South Sudan’s intensifying hunger, citing conflict and floods. 'Conflict' is the polite term for the endless cycle of violence fueled by international arms flows and neglected infrastructure. The UN’s World Food Program warned back in 2021 that 7.2 million people faced severe food insecurity then. That's over half the population. Instead of robust efforts to disarm factions
or stabilize the region, the world offers humanitarian bandages while the underlying wounds fester. This isn't just 'weather' and 'unavoidable fighting.' How many millions can starve before international bodies consider their own roles in either fueling or neglecting these crises? One might wonder if consistent, dedicated media attention and political will could halt a famine, or if 'conflict' in
the Global South is simply accepted as an unfortunate, but unfixable, phenomenon.