A brutal war since April has left at least 10,000 dead and displaced 6 million but remains a mere footnote on the international agenda.
I’ve been trying to add “Horn of Africa” when I talk about Ukraine, Gaza, etc. It’s an awful situation. I know people only have the capacity for so much horror but the same refugee charities are going to have to work there too. I do a monthly donation to Refugees International and Doctors Without Borders in part because they go anywhere, sometimes before journalists.
I feel so bad for not knowing about it before.
It’s hard to know about all the wars and genocides, if they aren’t in the standard westernized nations. I only learned of the Rohingya genocide this year.
The best that most of us can do is be like ShittyBeatles and donate to legit charities of your choice.
Hell even with western nations it can be forgotten, plenty of folks dont know about the Armenian genocide for example. Frankly speaking I think at best you can get most to list off the Holocaust, Armenia, and maybe the Holodomor or Cambodia.
The victims are the wrong colour, the perpetrators are the wrong religion, the west is distracted, Africans aren’t great fans of former colonial powers getting involved in their former colonies, and it’s in the Russian/Chinese sphere of influence.
Although the root causes of the conflict are domestic, Russia’s working on building a naval base there, there’s evidence of Wagner involvement, and according to some media Russia is using Sudanese gold to help fund the war in Ukraine. Which probably doesn’t help or give the Russians much of a motive to weaponise the conflict for propaganda purposes, unlike other conflicts.
I’ve done my part and told a few people about it. It hasn’t helped, so far.
