UN Aid Chief Praises Sudanese General Known for Child Soldier Recruitment
While communities starve in El-Fasher, UN aid chief Tom Fletcher met with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Burhan, a figure linked to Khartoum's previous regime and implicated in the recruitment of child soldiers, is now being lauded for… allowing aid, an international right. The UN's supposed neutrality stretches thin when one side's 'cooperation' is
celebrated after actively contributing to a humanitarian catastrophe and blocking essential supplies. This isn't diplomacy; it's a desperate legitimization. The media frames this as positive dialogue, yet overlooks that this 'dialogue' comes after months of deliberate obstruction by both SAF and RSF, creating a famine unprecedented in recent history. One might wonder if the praise aims to paper
over the UN's own failures to protect civilians, or if it's simply a recognition of whose side holds the most power.