The world has an unsettling tendency to pick and choose which humanitarian crises are worthy of outrage. Right now, Sudan has fallen through the cracks. As the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (SRF) nears the end of its second year, the agony grows ever more intolerable, with more than 11 million people having fled their homes — over half of them children. It's a catastrophe unfolding in silence. What does this apathy say about our collective conscience?

Sudan's children bear the brunt of it all. Like Gaza's children, they aren't collateral damage; they're direct targets. They're being killed, raped, starved, traumatised and left to fend for themselves in a country where even the basics of life — food, healthcare, education, shelter, even clean water — have collapsed. Far too many have lost their families and are now cast adrift in a world of horrors no child should ever face.

The stories bleeding out of Sudan are gut-wrenching. Mass........

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