US Aid Flows to 'Stabilize' Sudan as RSF Shells Maternity Ward
The New Arab reports the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a maternity ward in Sudan's El-Fasher, killing eight. A tragic but isolated incident, one might think, if you only consumed the daily news cycle. Yet, this violence unfolds against a backdrop of the US State Department designating the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) as committing war crimes, and yet still allocates aid intended for
'stabilization' in the region. One might wonder if 'stabilization' includes funding the very factions committing these acts. While the US decries the violence, it has historically armed and supported various actors in the broader region, often leaving chaos in its wake. The calls for 'ceasefires' echoing from Washington sound hollow when no structural changes to aid packages or sanctions truly hit
the perpetrators. How many more maternity wards must be shelled before the 'international community' applies the same scrutiny to its own regional strategies as it does to the headlines it prints?