UN Discovers Displacement in Sudan, Global North Yawns
Al Jazeera reports the UN's alarming finding: over 10 million displaced in Sudan. This 'largest displacement crisis' conveniently emerges after years of Western nations, including the U.S., engaging with—and at times, empowering—various Sudanese factions. While American political discourse obsesses over 'great power competition,' the human cost of the scramble for resources in Africa becomes just
another statistic, far from primetime. Where’s the urgent, wall-to-wall coverage for 10 million people? Perhaps genuine outrage is reserved for crises where a clear villain can be demonized without implicating Western foreign policy or defense contractors. The moral clarity is always sharper when the US isn't complicit, isn't it? One might almost believe some displacements are more 'equal' than
others.