Starving children live on animal feed

[MsAmerica]

Starving children live on animal feed as civil war consumes Sudan
By Declan Walsh

The city’s last functioning hospital has been bombed more than 30 times. Between 30 and 40 severely malnourished children arrive every day, seeking help. There’s nothing to give them but animal feed. “Even we’re eating animal feed,” said Dr Omar Selik, tilting his camera during a video call to show his meal: a sludgy paste made from pressed peanuts that is usually given to cows, camels, and donkeys. “There’s nothing else.”

Young men attempting to flee the city, scrambling over the berm at night, have been executed by fighters.

https://www.dtnext.in/edit/dire-choice-starving-sudanese-kids-resort-to-animal-feed-846669

Young men attempting to flee the city, scrambling over the berm at night, have been executed by fighters.

And people wonder why those trekking across the world and crossing the channel in rubber boats are young men.

It would be good if this country/government/media could see anywhere other than Gaza. But they don't.

Oh I can absolutely understand why you would want to escape Sudan....it's wanting to escape France that I'm having trouble with.

But yes, of course it's easy to see why the journey is too much for women and children and why it's young men in the main.

And what's happening in Sudan is horrific but in the West people like a nice, easy to understand conflict of two sides where they can pick one like it's a football game...even better if one side is a group of people they've always secretly hated and now can express that hatred under the guise of morality.

My point was absolutely about why are they all young men.

And while I'd not rush to escape France I'm not dark skinned/Muslim!!

This is so sad. Where is the food aid to Sudan?!

Over 10% of the French population is Muslim...which is higher than the UK.

The food aid doesn’t end up with the people who need it. The country is so broken now.

And just an aside on the migrant thing. It has always been the case that migrating needs resources so in a civil war who do you think is more likely to run away from the mess? Those who have starved and died and have nothing or have children in tow or those who caused the war?

Women don’t start wars and women don’t get to escape them easily. Our asylum systems are full of the self selected and not the people I would choose to rescue. The women and the children.

I know but that wasn't my point....

And when the men leave their wives/mothers/grandmothers/children, what do they think happens to them? I assume they don’t care.

I understand why you would want to escape Sudan but why leave France for the uk?

Despite the myth that Britain is a soft touch with generous handouts, asylum seekers in England actually get less than those in France, both short term and long term.

The main reason they try to get to England is cultural. The second official language in the Sudan is English stemming from our colonisation of the country for over 50 years (much of the conflict in the Sudan over the years can be traced back to the societal inequalities that arose as a result of that colonisation).

They may also have family connections already over here who have been granted asylum.

There is an argument that there is a perception that it is easier to get work in the grey economy but it is questionable how much of that is perception as France's grey economy is a much higher percentage of their economy overall than England's.

Whatever happens to them there, and they're almost certainly in less danger in a squalid camp than our fevered imaginations would have us believe, they're safer than walking across the Sahara and Libya.

And the UK has no ID cards. Yet.

No ID cards, able to work in the black/irregular economy with impunity. Authorities too paralysed by the fear of seeming racist to challenge people. Succession of weak governments.

https://www.wfp.org/support-us/stories/sudan?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20981854684&gbraid=0AAAAA
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https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/disaster-fund-sudan?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21136811489&gbraid=0AAAAAD_j2cDvRxCholJ_AECujqZ1t-sza#form-donate-module

https://donate.unrefugees.org.uk/help-Sudan/~my-donation?ns_ira_cr_arg=IyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyNdhB9%2BYaZI2bSyGsGYknoQ8YpHyidniHIGINIGCSu5lZEelkCSvZH5FOGg7eqx0ftDj2x1GKjvt9%2Bf8d2YjJy%2FtPZzq7u8HCE4as7%2FGJzzCKfCb4k8ADauGgA56Gc%2FfiVFlkgddB3Nh2z%2FI%2FTCLlveseUErcKol1mjObsnpXlMGA%3D%3D&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21168378435&gbraid=0AAAAADNTRrtLqXZEvHnDWCB-uxSM10N9C&_cv=1

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/sudan-appeal

https://cafod.org.uk/give/donate-to-emergencies/sudan-crisis-appeal

https://sharethemeal.org/campaigns/sudan2

https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/where-we-work/country/sudan/

I don't actually believe ID cards are that much of a factor - I need to research more about that.

It is ironic that it is being touted as one though given that when it was proposed and enacted into law, those who shout the loudest about the number of immigrants, were the ones who kicked off the most about ID cards and got it scrapped.

(Proposed and enacted into law by Blair, scrapped in 2011 by the Coalition)

Do we need them?

Normal employers need ID. Mine, different branches of the same federation of local charities are obsessive about it.

Problem right now won't be solved by ID cards unless somebody actually enforces the rules.

That's the problem now,

Labour are considering them apparently. Well they were when Yvette Cooper was HS. I suppose we are so monitored anyway that the old arguments against ID cards carry less weight sadly.

I think you're right.

Smart phones and loads of other stuff have killed of most of the arguments that saw them off after the war.

What are they talking about, animal feed? Groundnut stew, with or without meat is a staple human dish eaten throughout Africa.
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I think, as so often happens, there is aid stalled just with trying to deliver to a third-world country at war plus food stolen and diverted.