Postcard from Khartoum
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HE fall of Khartoum to one our warring parties in March, and the fighting raging around Port Sudan, have attracted little interest – and that is how the protagonists in Sudan’s latest civil war like it.
At least 150,000 people are dead, 13m displaced and 25m face severe food insecurity or famine. Yet we still find ourselves way down the newsroom running order below Gaza, Ukraine or the latest confected outrage from the US president. Even fewer hacks report on the dirty secret at the heart of a war that has raged for two years: the alleged involvement of the United Arab Emirates.