We cannot forget those left behind in Sudan
iolence – including gunfire, shelling and air strikes –made it too risky to travel to the few health facilities that are still open. With many more hospitals closed or facing a critical shortage of supplies, basic access to health care has been cut off.
For example, Sudanese teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières who remained in Khartoum have continued to work throughout the conflict, donating medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in the capital despite the dangerous conditions under which they now live. In El Fasher, North Darfur, our teams working to treat people injured in the violence have described an incredibly difficult situation.
As news commentators debate which foreign passports were de-prioritized in the evacuation queues, let us not forget who else is left behind: people who do not hold passports at all, as well as Sudanese people who do not have the option to leave. Sudan also hosts more than one million refugees from neighbouring countries like South Sudan and Ethiopia, who now find themselves yet again trapped in another wave of conflict.
At Um Rakuba and Tinedba camps in Al-Gederaf state, refugees describe shortages in medication and food amid rising prices and skyrocketing inflation. When Western media narratives hyperfocus on a single foreign evacuation story, they not only neglect these painful realities, they also paint a picture of a short-lived crisis that begins and ends when foreigners depart.
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