As the world looks elsewhere, famine descends on Darfur

Sudan has in this century endured genocide, civil war and partition, and now its crisis has worsened. Famine has officially been declared in part of the Darfur region in western Sudan.

Growing starvation has been apparent for many months, so this is in part a failure of the international community to apply adequate pressure on rival parties in Sudan and to provide adequate resources to address the crisis. Far more attention has been directed to conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine, and while that is understandable, the upshot is that children are dying unnecessarily in Sudan.