Editor's note: This blog was written by Enough Project intern Irina Balytsky.
On the occasion of the U.S.-Africa Summit, members of the Sudanese diaspora and U.S.-based Sudan activist groups wrote to President Obama and the leaders of African nations requesting that the plight of the Sudanese people not be forgotten during the Summit.
The letter's authors praise the Administration's decision to refrain from inviting President Omar al-Bashir and encourage the Administration to "include the welfare of the Sudanese people" with the Summit agenda of investing in the next generation.
Information about the current situation in Sudan is provided in the letter, stating that there is "no realistic prospect of resolution" for Sudan's multiple conflicts. In Darfur, the security situation is precarious, with villagers, internally displaced persons, and humanitarian workers being regularly attacked and killed. The number of displaced people continues to grow. In 2013, Sudanese security forces violently suppressed peaceful protests in Khartoum. In 2014, the government of Sudan bombed the only hospital in the Nuba Mountains and deployed the Rapid Support Forces (formerly the Janjaweed militia) in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains to attack civilians and destroy villages. These campaigns amount to concerted ethnic cleansing efforts by the government of Sudan against its various ethnic groups. Internally displaced camps in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and Blue Nile are prevented from receiving humanitarian aid, facilitating a grave situation of hunger and disease. Civil ...
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