Source: Common Dreams
by Chris Houston
“Last month, the International Rescue Committee, described the crisis in Sudan as the top global humanitarian emergency. On August 28, Lawrence O’Donnell described the war in Sudan as the ‘least reported humanitarian crisis on the planet’. Levon Sevunts is a former journalist who works for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. He had recently returned from Chad, a country hosting 633,867 people who have fled Sudan. Sevunts spoke to me, about his trip: ‘For me, this was an absolutely surreal experience to be back in Chad almost 20 years to the day after I went to Chad as a Canadian journalist, covering the conflict in Darfur, seeing the same stories, the same refugees, only on a much bigger scale.’ … Sevunts explained that it’s not just the refugees; it’s the local population who are worried about putting food on the table for their own families.” (09/14/24)