The world’s worst humanitarian crisis today is probably the web of famine, civil war, mass rape and other atrocities in Sudan, a nightmare that the United States has formally described as genocide.
Many tens of thousands have been killed, 11 million Sudanese have been displaced, the most lethal famine in decades may be underway, and UNICEF warns that children as young as 1 year old are being raped.
Yet the Trump administration is now cutting back on humanitarian assistance, aggravating the starvation.
Do President Donald Trump and his aides care about suffering in a distant land? I don’t know, but I think when we hear individual stories it may be more difficult for us to turn away.
Musa Ali, 32, was an interior designer in Khartoum who lived a good life until the civil war began two years ago between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.