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Desperate: Since the war started 13 million Sudanese civilians have been displaced. Photo: Jérôme Tubiana/Crisis Group

We cannot ignore the Sudanese civil war

Millions have been displaced, millions more are starving and hundreds of thousands are dead, but Africa remains silent

  • Eyaaz
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Former president Thabo Mbeki.

Open letter to Thabo Mbeki on the crisis in the DRC

With respect, your recent statements regarding the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carry the tone of pre-hostile rhetoric laced with accusatory language, ethnic insinuation and indirect justification of violence

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Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the war in the DRC. Photo: WFP/Michael Castofas

Displaced again: People flee fear, hunger as violence grips eastern DRC

Urgent diplomatic interventions are needed as the second largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo falls to M23

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JERUSALEM – JULY 19: Israel’s controversial West Bank barrier weaves its way between the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat (front) and the Jewish neighbourhood of Pisgat Zeev July 19, 2009 in East Jerusalem, the part of the city Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting that Israel’s sovereignty over the city was not a matter up for discussion after the U.S. State Department told the Israeli envoy to Washington that it must halt a right-wing Israeli construction project at the Shepherd Hotel in the East Jerusalem Arab suburb of Sheikh Jarrah. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

Jewish National Fund’s green facade erases Palestinian villages, facilitates land grabs for Israel

The organisation has advanced the Israeli settler project on Palestinian land in the West Bank, and within the Green Line area and Galilee

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