Andrew Wolfe
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Linguist of Saharan languages, bridge-builder. 🇹🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸, minority languages, literacy, matters of international/interfaith dialogue. Currently Darfur/Sudan.
El Fasher Cries Out for Help as Starvation Tightens Under Siege: Resolution 2736 Ignored While the World Protects Its Interests With the UAE In the heart of North Darfur, a desperate cry rises from the besieged city of El Fasher: “El Fasher is crying out for help.” The urgent appeal by journalist Muammar Ibrahim paints a harrowing picture of thousands of civilians, women and children, facing the threat of full-scale famine under a suffocating siege. This plea comes more than a year after UN Security Council Resolution 2736, passed in June 2024, which demanded the immediate lifting of the siege, protection of civilians and medical facilities, and unrestricted humanitarian access, including the reopening of the Adré border crossing with Chad. Despite the resolution receiving 14 votes in favor, it has remained nothing but ink on paper. The siege is still intact, and hunger-driven death has become a daily reality, turning El Fasher into a living testimony of the international community’s failure when moral duty clashes with political and economic interests. Markets are completely empty, and food supplies have vanished. In desperate attempts to survive, people relied for days on umbaz – oilseed press cake normally used as animal fodder – until even that disappeared. In the displacement shelters, women and children are wasting away, starving one day after the other while the world watches. “El Fasher is dying of hunger,” Ibrahim said, calling on humanitarian organizations, international bodies, and governments to intervene immediately to lift the siege and save lives. Yet the response remains absent, as the world seems more concerned with safeguarding its economic and political ties with the UAE, which is directly backing the militia enforcing the siege. We are living in a world that has bartered away its humanity, one that kneels before its lavish interests with the UAE while turning a cold, deliberate eye to children in El Fasher wasting away from hunger. A world fully capable of intervening chooses silence instead, watching the smallest and most vulnerable collapse one after another, as if their lives are worth less than the ink on gold contracts, oil deals, and corridors of influence. Imagine if that child was your son or your daughter, fading away in front of you without food, without medicine, and you could do nothing to save them. Anyone with the power to act who stays silent, anyone who chooses interests over innocent lives, is complicit in this crime. El Fasher is no longer just a besieged city; it has become a mirror showing how greed can crush human conscience, and how the entire world becomes an accomplice when it chooses to watch hunger unfold and remain silent. #Sudan #AlFashir_is_starving #RSFisTerroristOrganization #UAEKillsSudanesePeople #UAESponsorsTerrorism
IOM reports that roughly 406,300 people have been displaced from Zamzam IDP camp in N. Darfur since the RSF overran the camp on April 13. An estimated 180,000 people are still trapped there, or are dead. reliefweb.int/report/sudan/s…
Kenya's Port of Mombasa is implicated in the illegal export of gum Arabic from Sudan's RSF-controlled areas. The RSF, a powerful paramilitary group, is smuggling the valuable commodity through conflict zones.
People in Sudan are praying for news of a military victory after almost two years of war. Sky's @YousraElbagir walks the streets that have recently been reclaimed by the Sudanese army. trib.al/Y7dPeGL
Sur le site de Nagro dans le Batha, 800 Tchadiens mettent en œuvre des techniques de diguettes cloisonnées associées au Zaï pour récupérer des terres dégradées. L’objectif: développer la culture humide & renforcer la résilience face aux défis agricoles. Merci @BMZ_Bund 🇩🇪
Lors de notre première journée d'atelier aujourd'hui, les participants ont dû trier des photos d'objets courants en piles selon leurs sons vocaliques. Il est difficile de décrire à quel point il est enthousiasmant de voir mes amis bériaphones développer cette conscience (5/7)
