merely rhys@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf
Outstanding long-read from Anne Applebaum on the world's worst humanitarian crisis currently unfolding in Sudan, in which hundreds of thousands of people have died in less than two years of genocidal civil war, and in which at least 500,000 children are estimated to have died to famine.
Gifted link, free for fourteen days: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/sudan-civil-war-humanitarian-crisis/683563/?gift=y-oC1QlmgLOUZVvlEoH8407rrYfcvlpTncL2MT7iqDY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
#genocide
merely rhys@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf
Few are writing about this conflict, for lots of reasons (some very obvious), but one being that it's extraordinarily difficult to gather information safely.
Here, an atrocity committed by the RSF in April appears to have had its death count grossly underreported: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/07/zamzam-massacre-rapid-support-forces-rsf-militia-civilians-slaughtered
#genocide