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Inside the Mountain Stronghold of an Elusive Rebel Movement
As the conflict in Sudan rages on, an army has built its own state within a state — a vision of what the nation could become.
By Nicholas Casey
Sudan’s war has left nearly 11 million people displaced from their homes — more than the entire population of New York City, and currently the single largest population of internal refugees anywhere in the world. One U.S. State Department official estimated in May that as many as 150,000 people might be dead in the fighting, though the chaos has made an accurate body count impossible. Hospitals have ceased operating. Khartoum’s international airport is a ghost town, overrun by militiamen. Western Darfur, on the country’s frontier with Chad, stands besieged by paramilitary groups who have rekindled the ethnic cleansing that made Darfur a household name in the 2000s.
And then there is the threat of starvation, the specter that haunts nearly all conflicts in Africa and makes no distinction between civilian and combatant. More than 15 million Sudanese faced crisis-level food insecurity even before the war began. Since then, the fighting has destroyed not just schools and roads but also farms and agricultural infrastructure, as the warring parties pillage the countryside to sustain themselves. The possibility of a great famine, like the one that ravaged Ethiopia in the 1980s, has become real again. Yet in a world already ravaged by entrenched wars and the threat of more, the tragedy of Sudan has hardly registered in many corners. Protesters do not march on capitals demanding a cease-fire. The United States has kept its distance...
“No one has food. We are all eating bush leaves.”...
I saw a truck speeding toward us. Suddenly there was some commotion among the rebels, and several men readied their rifles. But the fighters calmed down when they saw the truck had a United Nations logo. The soldier who had handed me the cigarette explained that the hilltop position had been shelled by artillery recently.
“They’re hungry down there,” he said. “And they are desperate.” I asked him what the soldiers on the hill were getting for food. “Just leaves,” he answered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/magazine/sudan-nuba-war.html
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