In UN meet, MSF slams ‘indifference' toward war-torn Sudan
UNITED NATIONS: International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday told the United Nations Security Council that the Sudanese people have been met with 'indifference and inaction' amid nearly two years of war.
'Two years of unrelenting violence have plagued Sudan, two years of devastation, displacement and death, millions uprooted, tens of thousands killed,' MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear said at a Security Council meeting.
'Two years of suffering met with two years of indifference and inaction.'
Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a war between the nation's army, led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) helmed by General Mohamed Hamdane Dagalo.
'The war in Sudan is a war on people, a reality that grows more evident by the day,' Lockyear said, accusing the parties of not only failing to protect citizens but also 'actively compounding their suffering.'
Lockyear critiqued the Security Council's repeated calls for a ceasefire, calling their actions 'hollow.'
'Whilst statements are being made in this chamber, civilians remain unseen, unprotected, bombed, besieged, raped, displaced, deprived of food, of medical care, of dignity,' he said.
The ongoing violence led MSF last month to suspend all activities in the famine-stricken Zamzam IDP refugee camp.
'This Council's failure to translate its own demands into action feels like abandonment to violence and deprivation,' Lockyear said.
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