The situation in Sudan has deteriorated rapidly, forcing Doctors Without Borders to abandon a refugee camp due to safety concerns. The camp, located near al-Fashir, was plagued by shelling and blockades from both the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Humanitarian groups criticize the Biden administration for its delayed response to the crisis.
The Biden-Harris administration is scrambling to look useful in Sudan , where conditions deteriorated so much in the past week that Doctors Without Borders had to abandon a disease-riddled and famine-ravaged refugee camp because it could no longer operate safely.
Burhan is the general in command of the Sudanese army, while Daglo leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces . The two sides have fought to a virtual stalemate. Civilian casualties keep piling up – Burhan’s forces23 civilians by bombing an RSF-held marketplace in the capital of Khartoum on Sunday – but the battle lines do not move much.
MSF said it was “heartbreaking” to end its support for the Zamzam camp, whose sick and starving residents include five thousand malnourished children. “The Administration is making an 11th hour attempt to put the situation on a better footing, not least because the humanitarian situation is so desperate,” said Cameron Hudson, former director for African affairs at the National Security Council and current senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies .
The Biden-Harris administration has been fighting a losing struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, which are both offeringBiden made a great production of demonstrating how much Africa matters to U.S. foreign policy with a splashy Africa summit in 2022, but, as Hudson pointed out, his promises rang hollow compared to the concrete investments China and Russia have made on the continent.
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