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News & Current Events Apr 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM

Over 19 million face hunger as Sudan grapples with world’s largest humanitarian crisis

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Over 19 million face hunger as Sudan grapples with world’s largest humanitarian crisis
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Over 19 million face hunger as Sudan grapples with world’s largest humanitarian crisis
More than 19 million people in Sudan are facing what has been described as the world’s largest humanitarian hunger crisis, according to the World Food Programme, AzerNEWS reports.

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SirDigbyridesagain 21 hr ago +187
Im 41, I cannot remember a time where this wasn't the case. Every year Sudan faces a other humanitarian crisis.
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schmah 18 hr ago +95
There is a civil war going on since 2023 that is driven by racist Arab Supremacists who carry out a genocidal campaign against non-arab ethnicities. The RSF committed massacres in which they killed tens of thousands of people within a couple of days - by hand. The horrors of this conflict are published by the [United Nations](https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc6177-sudan-hallmarks-genocide-el-fasher-report-independent) or the [EU](https://www.euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-sudan/23-rapid-support-forces-rsf-and-allies) and I posted this because the United Nations issued an [update](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167281) for the third anniversary of this conflict. What we see here is the anniversary of the biggest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century and an ongoing genocide. It's wild to me that this updat wasn't reported by any western news outlet and that people think this is just Sudan being Sudan. Western nations need to put pressure on the Arab Emirates to pull their support which is crucual for the RSF. But for that people need to know about this first.
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BumfuzzlingGubbin 15 hr ago +17
Western nations don’t care cause there’s no benefit to them getting involved in this war. That’s the reality
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schmah 13 hr ago -4
Western nations don't want to piss off the UAE because of their business relations with the Trump family and Trump won't do anything for that very reason. And not just that. Elon Musk's and Trump's cuts to USAID and the WFP will lead to millions of additional deaths in Sudan. To say western nations are indiffrent is too easy when voters, especially american voters, could have changed a lot.
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llamawithguns 8 hr ago +2
I dont think it would matter who was US President in this case. Sadly, African affairs are always of low importance to the West
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huhwhuh 10 hr ago +8
Where are the free palestine protestors?
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justdidapoo 9 hr ago +4
This is the worst its been since the early 2000s by far
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OtherlandGirl 9 hr ago +1
I was thinking the same thing.
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Live-Count4014 19 hr ago +15
The state of affairs in Sudan is sad When there’s no stability, it’s basically everyone for themselves
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JackFlyNorth 21 hr ago +61
People don't care. It's sad. Gets virtually no coverage in North America.
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Slavicgoddess23 21 hr ago +42
Probably because this has been an issue since the dawn of time, people are done helping or just don’t care because they struggle themselves in today’s world. Sad reality. Statistics show that people are donating less and less since a few years ago
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Tiny-Run5590 17 hr ago +16
Thing is you help them out now with humanitarian aid and they'll just starve again in a year or two. It sucks but it is what it is. Those regions of the earth are going to become even more hostile in the coming decades.
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ModsFromSteam 7 hr ago +1
in the last 60 years haiti's popultaion has gone from 4 million to 11 million. Basically all humanitarian aid in Haiti is has done is increase the need for humanitarian aid
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Desperate-You-9695 18 hr ago +18
Hard to care about people a world away when your hungry ya know?
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Slavicgoddess23 18 hr ago +11
Agreed completely.
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GortanoSmalls 14 hr ago -1
Say that about palestine
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Desperate-You-9695 14 hr ago +9
Dude idgaf what’s happening anywhere if I’m starving at home shits hard yo
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DarthDonut 21 hr ago +6
It's on the news constantly.
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TheOsirisOfThisShit_ 15 hr ago +3
So you have no answer for what you want us to do? You just want to lecture us and feel better about yourself?
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thewavefixation 5 hr ago +1
Tankies don't care because there aren't any Jews to blame
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theefle 20 hr ago -7
Are we the worlds caretakers and police? No matter how tragic things get in Africa or Haiti or Myanmar, they are not ours to fix
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JackFlyNorth 19 hr ago +18
Worst take. 100% disagree. We can and should help. Can help ourselves and others. Helping others indirectly helps us in the long term. Big picture.
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theefle 19 hr ago
Look into how well prior interventions e.g. Haiti turned out, and look into whether the problems with African starvation regions are due to insufficient foodstuffs versus inability to actually get the supplies to the villagers. What youre looking at may seem big picture, but thats only because you havent lost your naivety yet, theres a bigger picture with a lot of historical context, that says we are not the world's enforcers.
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JackFlyNorth 19 hr ago +7
Naive? I wish! Give me that ignorant bliss back. Your argument isn't realism, it's resignation. The Haiti response was reckless and a warning. Intervention can hurt when arrogant or uninformed. But that doesn't justify indifference. Better intervention not no intervention. Accountability and improvement with more targeted aid. Better logistics, better coordination, and more respect for local realities/orgs matter. If your takeaway from past failures is indifference, then you’ve learned the wrong lesson. But this is just noise in the void. Your desire to sit back is well on it's way.
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theefle 19 hr ago +5
Name me one western nation building intervention that succeeded in africa or mideast? I'll wait. Youre the definition of insanity with a bleeding heart spin on it, just trust me guys we'll do it right this time the first dozen attempts was all warmup.
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JackFlyNorth 18 hr ago +10
Nation building? Nice try flipping this into me advocating for Iraq 2.0 . Your 'name one' gotcha and 'we'll-do-it-right' strawman are cute dodges. But, can I name limited targeted aid that's been successful (as that's what we're talking about)? Sierra Leone 2000, Liberia Ebola 2014, East Timor 1999. Limited, smart, and not occupations. Insanity is ignoring successes to justify apathy. And continuing this argument with you. That was my mistake.
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theefle 18 hr ago +9
Nah Sudan is a full on civil war, just like they were for decades in the 1950s-70s and 1980s-00s. You'd need extensive peacekeeping mission followed by an attempt to build more stable democracy, which is doomed to devolve again (very similar to Haiti). You can keep pretending we just need to dispatch them more foodstuffs, but realize everyone halfway educated on this sees you as either dishonest or a simpleton for it.
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NFTArtist 19 hr ago +5
It has nothing to do with Jews, people just don't care about African people or wars. Same goes for what's going on in Myanmar., etc.
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BrainBlowX 21 hr ago -3
> Can't blame jews for this one, eh?  Why do people like you always pop up to spew c**** gotchas while relishing human suffering? You also look like a fool: the genocide is supported by the UAE, Israel's geopolitical ally in the region. > When it's Africans killing Africans the west is always quiet. Actually, it's primarily *arabs* killing africans, but you're of course quiet about that when Israel is the partner of the lead instigator of this genocide.
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EffektieweEffie 21 hr ago +23
Imagine if all the money that is spent on war was instead used to provide food, medicine and education across the world. We are failing so hard as a species right now.
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Greedy-Cranberry-164 16 hr ago +27
Providing aid for Africa is usual counter productivity. At some point the content needs to sort its own problems with long term reform and avoid the short term aid addiction Thankfully at least some countries are showing progress
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psychrolute 4 hr ago +1
Both sides of the conflict are funded by Gulf countries. The RSF by the UAE and the SAF by Saudi Arabia. So a proxy war?
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this_dudeagain 17 hr ago +8
We'd deplete the world of all its resources and go extinct.
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AfternoonWorried387 15 hr ago -2
by going to war yeah.
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Slaaneshdog 14 hr ago +13
I'm sure Greta is packing a boat with aid supplies as we speak
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Constant_Section1491 20 hr ago +7
Where can we donate?
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schmah 16 hr ago +11
You can donate to [UNHCR](https://www.unhcr.org/where-we-work/countries/sudan) or [Doctors Without Borders](https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/humanitarian-disaster-unfolding-nyatim-south-sudan) but this is an issue that needs to be adressed by nations. People in western countries need to talk about this and demand action this from their politicians.
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PhantasmologicalAnus 10 hr ago +4
But aren't we supposed to be protesting about the palestinians, who've done nothing but invite their own doom? How could anyone have time for a conflict that's been going on far longer, in worse conditions and taken far more lives?
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ikesbutt 4 hr ago +1
Um.......Elan Musk got rid of US aid........that could be part of the problem?
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Bruggenmeister 22 hr ago -14
If only we had some multibillionaire who could use 2% of his fortune to end world hunger…damn shame
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Foreign_Cable_9530 21 hr ago +54
It’s not the type of world hunger you can throw money at. It’s the type of world hunger you have to throw an organized military at.
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mariusherea 21 hr ago +21
Do you know what it implies to end world hunger or do you just like to hear you talk? Don’t believe all the titles you read on listnook
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J_A_Kn_Daxter 22 hr ago +12
What? It's because there's a massive f****** war
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Beneficial_Motor7065 22 hr ago +1
The war is still ongoing because their gold is being exported via kenya and the millitants paid in weapons
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Beneficial_Motor7065 21 hr ago +2
Yes that's how the war started then different countries chose sides between the RSF and the SAF. According to a report published last year after the RSF established a goverment in Kenya it stated that sudan gold was being smuggled through Kenya to the UAE and payment was in weapons.
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Slavicgoddess23 21 hr ago +1
How so?
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schmah 19 hr ago
The Rapid Support Forces that fight the Sudanese Armed Forces believe in Arab Supremacy. It's their main talking point, the reason behind the genocidal massacres and that's why they're supported by the Emirates.
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faux_italian 14 hr ago -9
I think you spelled Gaza i mean Palestine wrong.
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nycyambro 20 hr ago -20
Just How One Less US Missile Can Feed How Many South Sudanese?
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Soggy-State-9554 17 hr ago +10
There's something wrong with your keyboard.
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