Sudan: the Proxy War the World is Ignoring
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2024
- Discover the untold story behind one of the world's biggest crises. Dive deep into the Sudanese civil war, a conflict ravaging lives and dragging in major world powers. This is a crisis the world can't afford to ignore.
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There are more than 30 war conflicts going on right now, most of which are actually civil wars like Sudan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Mali, DR Congo, Haiti, Syria, Lybia, Iraq, Burkina Faso you name it. I would also include here Mexican Drug Wars, war in Ukraine and Russia and Israel war in Gaza. Such level of conflicts both on casualties and scale have not seen since WW2. Thank you for covering Sudan War which the World is Ignoring.
Thanks for mentioning the cartels as basically Mexico is in a civil war
Unless I'm missing something, I didn't hear about any war in Nigeria.
iraq is chill yo
@@timifamous2You're definitely missing something. Simon's talked about it on this channel, as well as Geographics.
@@timifamous2 I was referring to Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgency which still takes place in Northern Nigeria, Northern Cameroon, Southeast Niger and Western Chad. Of course, the scale of that conflict is not comparable to Sudan, but I've seen some NSFW mass executions from that region at telegram and the cruelty is absolutely brutal.
As a Kenyan it's difficult to believe that all this carnage is happening in a 'neighbouring' country😅our country is being troubled by a Fertilizer Fraud deal while our neighbours are barely surviving.
Hujambo Bwana! I grew up in Kenya in Bomet 3 to 4 hours west of Nairobi at Tenwek! 15 years there and now I am in Iowa. Love Kenya!
@@WolfhasaWASR Sijambo. It's nice to hear from you. How is life in the US?
Kenyan here too. We hear more on Ukraine and Gaza than our own neighbors. I thought a war this scale should be mainstream news even for us on the African continent. I think we need our own African global news network the equivalent of Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN to tell these stories.
That said, media is also selective on which African countries they report on. Had this happened in Kenya or other western leaning or important geopolitical anchor nations like SA, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast or Nigeria and given that Nairobi is the base where almost all global news agencies have their regional headquarters, this would be daily news.
@@davianoinglesias5030 The US is good. I’m actually American but spent my whole childhood and secondary schooling in Kenya.
@@likatalikata3823 true, it's very unfortunate that most people get to learn very little about what's happening to our neighbours.
I went to university in 2014 with a man who is now leading a militia in South Sudan with a mission to "take the heads of his enemies." He had been a child soldier, and I really liked him, until I realized he actually was quite serious, and actually went back, and sent me lots of pictures.
Extremism is a hell of a drug.
A guy I work with is Sudanese. His wife and parents are stuck there. We work night shifts, and he tells me he doesnt sleep when we finish work every morning.
He stood on business
😮
What do you think happens to ones enemy in war.
I'm Sudanese
This is probably the most accurate video I've seen that covers "our story" well, going back decades to its roots. Thank you very much mister, I'm glad your channel popped up in my feed.
Just a simple note:
Yes, the SAF has its dark side over the past decades, due to the brutal killing and genocide i should say, towards certain tribes in Darfur, and that was due to our country being governed by a vicious dictator, Al-Bashir, who claims he is "islamic", but none of his 30 years in charge says anything about Islam. As you said, in his brutal endeavour in Darfur, he used RSF. Back then they weren't known as RSF, they didn't have a "uniform", they weren't related to the government. Al Bashir gave them weapons, made them governmental, gave their leader Hemedti open ties with UAE and KSA in their war against Yemen, which brought nothing but despair to the Yemeni people.
RSF since the beginning of the war, forced us to leave our homes in the capital Khartoum, looted our homes, literally taking everything, even the spoons and bed sheets. They are known rapists, and by the way they tend to film each other doing war crimes, there are actual videos of them raping women, staying in our houses, and even bring their families to live in our houses. IT'S ALL FILMED, THEY THEMSELVES FILM THIS.
I'm sorry for the long comment, I just want to stress the fact that RSF will never establish a country, and one of our mottos in out revolution in 2019 we said:
"To their barracks the military shall return. To be completely dismantled, shall the Janjaweed". The Janjaweed is the real name of RSF. They are nothing but a coward militia, hiding from our army the SAF, by staying in our homes. Almost all of the Sudanese stand with the army, a few are neutral, but none of us, stand with RSF.
"it's not Islam" 😂
It is infact what Islam is
Read about history and true Islam and you will learn, what Islam really is.
Same here
@@randmht9976 There are only two nations in a long list of countries suffering civil war or warring against their neighbors that are NOT Islamic...Haiti and Russia/Ukraine.
Umm, SO not true US civil war NOT Islamic! Also many have been killed, hanged etc in name of Christianity😢
@@randmht9976right… you an American know more than him
I am sudanese and all I can do now is pray my whole me and my dad and mom have not been in sudan when the war started but the rest of my family was and were forced to go to egypt
How are you doing?
I.A bro it will be fine
The censorship of UA-cam has gotten ridiculous. Saying a word is not condoning the action.
It's not about condoning anything. It's about advertisers not wanting to be promoted in videos about certain topics.
UA-cam's censorship is totally communist. 100% violates Americans rights to freedom of speech, expression and the press.
If the story was that important to this channel, they wouldn’t censor themselves
If you make people fear a word, they'll never wanna talk about the issue.
This is much worse than Gaza, but their are no political points or palestinian Nazi beliefs involved in Africa.
I was in Sudan for a month almost 10 years ago now and it was amazing mostly because of the people, this is just heartbreaking.
Same, I travelled the country for six weeks alone with my baby and the Sudanese took such good care of us as well as show us a good time. I have been gutted for years over what has been happening in Sudan.
sad that you can't even say the word 'rape' when reporting and quoting it, what a weird world we live in.
1984
@@Davidpostingshid"Guys, this is like Orwell's 1984"
In all seriousness, christ yes, I get comment paused for a day for no rational reason OR any given reason. They don't even show the comments that got me flagged in the first place. "Ignorance is Strength-" shut up.
Tbh. Besides Israel-Hamas and Israel-Iran. Most conflicts around the world, are not spoken of or completely ignored and forgotten. Ukraine-Russo war isn’t even on mainstream coverage anymore, Myanmar never went mainstream coverage, Azerbaijan-Armenia ethnic clash never went mainstream, Chads insurgents as well, Congos many ethnic skirmishes, Indonesia and Malaysia jihadist conflicts and even Mexican Cartel skirmishes. For the common person, it’s honestly hard to keep up with such; since it does not entirely affect their day-to-day lives.
Russo-Ukraine is still on the news.
"For the common person" they don't understand these conflicts or have the power to alter them.
@@Ozzianman Not like it was when the western media propaganda were getting away with blatantly lying. Now that the truth is out, Ukraine gets an honorable mention a couple times a week, usually buried under 20 stories about Israel.
Russian Ukraine war has essentially been going on for nearly a decade it wasn't until Russia ramped up and tried to take kiev that it became news.
as an Indonesian I don’t even know what jihadist conflict you’re talking about is ongoing in Indonesia right now
World Leader “What’s going on out there?”
Aide “We’ll know once Simon uploads his next Warographics”
You’d be surprised how many governments use “news” sources shallower than a moderately popular UA-cam channel.
Reminds me of Haiti. It’s not that people are ignoring it, it’s just that no one is talking about it or trying to spread the word. Looking at you News channels…
I believe that's the definition of ignoring
I guess a lot of people have no idea how to resolve conflicts that are this brutal and complicated. Most African wars have no side to root for.
Great that you are covering this... the silence on this matter is crazy.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - A year in hell
6:15 - Chapter 2 - Seeds of hate
12:00 - Chapter 3 - Puppet masters
16:30 - Chapter 4 - Enemy of my enemy
21:40 - Chapter 5 - Wildfire
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Thank you!
With even Ukraine struggling to get some attention, it's difficult to see the world talking about Sudan.
People are too busy picking a side between Israel and Palestine to worry about Ukraine. And those same people didn't even know there was a country called Sudan.
Why are the lives of people Ukraine worth more than the people in Sudan…is it because the people in Ukraine are Europeans?
@@cameronburke8002Sudan doesn’t get aid from the US government (unquestioningly).
Israel does. That’s why what’s going on in Israel has the attention it does, and Sudan doesn’t, on top of the conflict threatening to rope in Iran.
Sometimes things get a lot of attention for actual reasons and not just because someone wants to ignore someone else’s suffering.
@@bigbluebuttonman1137 Sudan has alao been at war, in some form or another, since the 1950's. 70 years is a long time. More than long enough for the rest of the world to grow disinterested and accustomed to Sudan being a hotbed for conflict. This is less a "nobody cares", and more of a "Yeah, what's new" scenario. It's hard to get people to care when it's the same story, year after year, for generations.
@@bigbluebuttonman1137 You vastly underestimate the massive power of anti-semetism that is driving the anti-Israel discourse. There are plenty of countries doing things just as bad as Israel, yet they get a fraction of the criticism. That is the power of anti-semetism.
Conflicts like this are like quicksand, you stick your toe in trying to help, then get quickly sucked into a quagmire.
Simon's forcefully sucking in air every few seconds makes me anxious. He needs to chill so that I can too 😂
Oh noooo now I can hear it every time!!
MF me too @@vantarinitel
Complicated is certainly the right way to describe this, and the war being an ongoing disaster is how I would describe it. I am glad somebody is still trying to bring some attention to this.
I just wanted to thank you and everyone on your team for these videos. Not only are they very well done and informative, but they’re also interesting.
They are also quite important since they bring light to conflicts like this one, and others like the Tigray war for example.
Way too many people have suffered and died directly from these tragedies for the entire world to seemingly not know or care about them at all.
Thank you again for all you guys do! And RIP to all the victims of these senseless wars
Some additional info, the RSF are the former janjaweed loyal to Bashir. They entered Khartoum during the civil revolution and killed around 100 protesters. The SAF entered the city and a deal was struck as the rsf were already embedded, it was appeasement. RSF refused to integrate pre elections resulting in the current war.
MMy husband is Ethiopian/Eritrean and was born in Sudan in 1983. His beautiful most amazing mother delivered him in a prison (she was caught leading Christian Bible studies) By late 1989 they were finally able to make it to America. They don’t talk about it much in detail, mentioning only occasionally the communist party or the famine. They prefer concentrating on the present, living their best lives here in the States. So I struggle to understand the details and time line on my own, and unfortunately after watching this video I’m more confused than I was before watching it. 😵💫
Shut up
People naturally ignore things that aren’t relevant to them.
That is certainly true. Just take a look how fast Finland went pro-NATO once the conflict in Ukraine started. Still, gotta be happy about the fact that so many people now share the world view I've had since late 90s.
Well said!
@@DarkZodiacZZ NATO is terrible
because we have limited mental capacity. imagine having to worry about every single thing that is happening around the world right now. would you be able to handle it?
@@DarkZodiacZZ NATO is not positive
This has been happening since at least 2016. My buddy guarded the embassy there, alot of bad things would happen just outside the wall and he wasn't allowed to do anything because the US did not want to pick a side.
They were right. Any hint of the US picking a side would lead to every conspiracy nut blaming the US for everything.
The US's proxy UAE is already there though. why should the US go in by themselves? All the Arab rulers are puppets.
Is anyone else tired worrying about these Stone Age beefs and tribal wars? The human cost is tremendous but I don’t think there’s an outside solution.
Indeed
Stone age beliefs? hahaha UAE/ Aka USA and Izzra wants their gold and lithium. this isn't a religious war. they just happen to be poor people with wealth. Like a beautiful wosman who can't be safe because she can't protect herself. In this case beauty is her curse.
The PBS Newshour in the US has been giving this some coverage over the last year, with more frequent stories recently.
It does not matter how many powers are going to get sucked into it, almost nobody outside of Sudan is emotionally attached to any of the fighting parties or victims.
Its warlords fighting each other. There is no good guy
There never is actually good guys@@AL-lh2ht
@@AL-lh2htTrue. From what I have been reading on Sudanese Social media the army is much more popular. Even tho neither are good most people in Sudan still want the lesser of 2 evils to prevail.
The emotional attachment to passage of global shipping through the Red Sea might be the thing that gets more attention for this region. Sad that human suffering isn't reason enough.
I think the world, after so many decades of only hearing about war in Africa are just too tired to help. When we do help, we get attacked. When we don't, lambasted. It's a lose-lose situation (of course this is a gross oversimplification).
The issue with alot of these african conflicts is both sides (or more often 10's of sides/competing factions) regularly commit genocide, mass r*pes etc. Which makes it very difficult to help any side even if is just delivering food aid civilians under their area of control.
I mean israel and hamas arent really good either. Its only because gazans trapped there they are paying any attention to it. And even they're only getting a fraction of it.
A fraction of aid needed
Can't blame Jews = no news
@@longestvideoeverwhy keep sending aid workers, if they're going to get bombed for delivering food?
@@SkunkApe407why keep sending aid if Hamas sells it to its own people? Takes a real scum bag to accept FREE aid and then sell it to your own people. Both sides are trash.
Bless you for bringing this to the world's attention; to the extent anyone will care. Haiti, Myanmar, the list is too long.
I think the underlying problem here is the fact that Sudan has been in a state of continuous civil war since its very inception 70 years ago. Its the norm for that region.
It's heartbreaking to see how the Saudis, the UAE, and the US trading corporation utilizing puppet warriors to destabilize, dislocate, and genocide Sudanese people.... these people in these regions are societies of antiquity how despicable!
So similar to the state of Israel. Yet the stark contrast in media coverage..
@@cc23001 Absolutely nothing alike.
@@Felix0587It's been the normal for Israel to be fighting Palestine and its neighbours? What are you talking about?
@@cc23001
Israel actually has civilized, intelligent, productive people unlike the majority of Africa that's full of violent, criminal and often savage people who are completely incapable of living in a modern civilized society. Is it any wonder that when they come to civilized western nations that so many of them behave the same way as how they did back in their homelands and as a result they're just as much of a problem in their new homeland?
Thank you for covering our conflict even though almost nobody cares, even Sudanese people themselves are starting to forget (the ones outside the country).
Should've uploaded this yesterday on the 1 year anniversary of the war
What would you have us do, exactly?
@@Nat3ski did i ask of you anything ?
Africa doesn't get a lot of coverage in western media. If they aren't white they don't really want us to care.
Stay strong! I hope you may find peace soon
@@Nat3skiJust awareness is a start. Educating those of us in our, so far, safe European and American homes. The parties involved in Africa are extremely concerning and our people need to maintain awareness in case we are needed or, god forbid, dragged in.
Thank you for covering this.
Madness. I attempted to listen to this while cooking but I can’t give it the full attention it needs like this. Great episode - I will listen again while lying down rather
Most people: "Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?"
World leaders: "Shh. Watch your sports and stop worrying so much about things."
Puppet masters all over Africa, my empathy is with the women and children who ultimately suffers the most during wartime.
*during wartime in barbaric countries such as Sudan.
Boys suffer too😅
What now? They're doomes
I agree. We all suffer from environmental degradation to witnessing the inequalities of our human species.
And the men who suffer? Not every single man is a warlord in these countries
Absolutely love your work Simon keep it up!
Thank you, so much, for making your content.
On behalf of the world, bless you.
Thank you, Simon and team.
4:17 his ppl are starving and he got all gold and glitters
Simon I just want to say I appreciate you and your team. You are my news channel. It now biased it's formative it's well written out your Grammer is amazing even though you say a lot of the words I do not understand and that's ok. You may talk about dark and horrible things but your channeled across the board bring light to my day and I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos
It's the American writer's grammar mixed with an Englishman's attempts at pronunciation
So all told, it is good, considering.
Thanks for sharing this! Currently dealing with family stuck back home and banks are closed, can't send money or anything literally! Have to be savvy and workaround these issues so people can barely survive! Thanks again!!
Thank you Simon and Team for covering the conflict that no one else will.
You give great information. Keep it up, you do good work!
bro are you is are you is? I thought you was thought was you. So are is you? Or is you are is are you is now?
I’m surprised Sudan hasn’t ceased to exist yet
As a functioning country it doesn't exist. It's just lines on a map.
As is the case with most 'nation states', cut up by colonial powers and then abandoned or held hostage even after they supposedly leave. Africa is the worst example and the situation here isn't getting any better, especially as new colonisers have come, where their presence is corporations, and having dissarray is cheaper than functioning states that would tax them properly.
@@xGUANdeLUPEx we can most likely classify this theory as mistaken. Do the lines that were forced onto Africa help with stability? most definitely not.... are corporations actively inducing chaos in order to make money? more importantly, does uncivilized chaos induce more profit than stability in the region would? Yea right.... if such things are happening, it wouldnt be the colonizers, it would be the enemy of the colonizers here to try to steal their turf, deny them profits, and if possible, wreck the market and loot whats left.
If the Africans that live on the continent would be so much better without foreign interference, then all they need to do is put together a functioning group of some sort to regulate, legislate and if necessary ventilate trespassers for a decade or two. If that is somehow entirely impossible... perhaps Africa could use some help after all?
The only reason it exists is because neighbouring countries protect their borders with Sudan😅
@@xGUANdeLUPEx Corporations don't like disarray. They'd much rather have stability and know the environment they'll be working in in the future.
Thank you so much for covering this. It is so well appreciated.
Thanks for covering this. One tragedy of the internet is how it hollowed out journalism and incentivized clickbait.
Probably still wouldn’t get coverage, but it’s spooky how something like this is just invisible.
Such conflicts were entirely invisible in decades past though
At least now you can find channels such as this one, though we have a long way to go to get to truly worldwide media coverage
The optimist in me hopes that this video makes a positive impact
The pessimist in me wonders if a series on top conflict locales for adventurers to eat before the location is catered wouldn't achieve the same.
Thanks Simon for keeping the optimistic candle lit
Thank you Simon for bringing to light all you cover
Once you start hearing Simon’s sharp inhales, you can never un-hear them.
Hey ! Thanks Tons for all this information. Well done.. fast and efficient
The two waring factions aren’t popular and evil with the Sudanese. They are screwed either way.
If one the Sudanese people can discard Arab identity, religion, unify mobilize against the West, the Saudis, and UAE
#LongLiveNubia....may the Sudanese remember their greatness long before a Saudi/UAE oil empire was established by the west
Saudi Arabia and UAE are on opposing sides in this war, it's Saudi Arabia and Iran vs UAE and Russia.@@Omisaide
Well done! I think it's important for whoever has the wherewithal to remind the world that there are still other places in the world that deserve some attention. And it often happens that these other places are experiencing crises that sometimes make those covered in prevailing narratives pale in comparison. War is indeed hell, wherever it occurs. But it's true that there are powder kegs (like the situation in Sudan) that could affect wider regions and eventually world powers in ways most people would never expect. Cheers!
Cracking job Simon 🤙
Excellent Chanel. Thank you to Simon and your staff.
Legit question - if all the factions involved are monsters, what's the best thing for a very powerful outside country with a checkered history in such situations to do?
I honestly believe that Africa should be left to their own devices. They’ve received over 50 Marshall plans worth of aid from the west and nothing has ever come of it. They dont even keep or maintain anything that’s built for them. A couple years ago some Europeans came in to fix a bridge that the locals had been crossing with a rope. And when the bridge was complete and the Europeans left, the locals destroyed the bridge and began using the rope again.
Stay out of it. The countries of Africa whine about the West "interfering" in their continent so we'll let them sort this out.
Sudan doesn’t have anything the US needs. All we need is coltan and other semiconductor minerals to keep China at bay but we get those from Congo. We could send in mercs to steal the gold that’s supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine but that wouldn’t be very profitable for our PMCs. Ignoring Sudan and arming Ukraine is the best strategic move. If Kissinger or Brzezenski were alive today, I imagine that’s what they’d do.
@@BiggieTrismegistus Sudanese people never once told America to stay out, nor did they have any anti-Western sentiment. I was literally there. Most of them were chillling outside under the stars, chilling. That was around 7 years ago.
They even feed travelers and such. Not once felt or saw anti-Western sentiment. They even kept praising Germany when talking to my dad.
These mental gymnastics where all of Africa is the same, is tiring. As if America and Europe aren't polarized into different factions in extremely comfortable environments.
I think the West is evil. Having such a big mouth when 70% of gum Arabic used in coke and other soft drinks comes from Sudan. You don't appreciate anything these people have or do, you get so much from these people and then you turn around and flip the middle finger at your hallucination of a nation.
War came to Europe already. And war usually spreads. So good luck being more sane than those people suffering there, mostly because European and American companies use and abuse their lands while paying them almost nothing.
@@yahiiia9269 I mean bro, you're saying the Sudanese don't have anti-western sentiment and you're claiming to be a supporter of their people but then in the same post you post a shit ton of anti-western sentiment. You're not doing a great job at convincing people to give them a chance.
Someone adjusted the compression on your vocals. Your inhales are far more amplified than normal.
Thank you for this amazing video❤
Great video as usual! Wargraphics does some top-notch work.
When i was coming home from Tanzania Africa I met a gentleman from Sudan who was heading to Arizona who got a full ride scholarship and told me that his country has never seen moments where they're not killing one another and struggling for food and water..He said ever since he was little, its all hes ever known. He didnt even know how to open his meal on the plane and his face seeing the food he was served.. It broke my heart, he said he was chosen out of 15,000 applications...
bro how many alligators and kangaroos did you eat in 2023?
Sudan Population
1950 6,191,323
2024 49,358,228
That can easily put stress on resources, unless a country is properly managed.
Thank you so much for giving an update on this. For the last year I keep praying for Sudan, knowing that the news is not being read by many people around the world. Even if the world forget, God sees every person and we need to care about all the innocent civilians. Though it is indeed difficult to see how we can help with the political situation from the outside.
God huh, pff, inept af
Thank you for covering this war, I hate how so many conflicts, especially in the global south, is ignored in media.
Thanks for covering this.
Sometimes I think about the South African law team literally flying over Sudan on their way to the UN to fight for Gaza. I’m glad they did it for Gaza.. but why not say something on behalf of their own African Union member?
We don’t hear about it because no news outlets or NGOs are allowed in at all.
The South African ANC government didn't do it for Gaza. They did it because they were bankrupt and needed money to fund their election campaign in May. Iran obliged if they would act as proxy, and now they're flush with money again. What a coincidence. A few years ago when Bashir, the warlord of Sudan, was in South Africa and wanted by the ICC, the ANC smuggled him out in a private jet. The only way to help Gaza is to get rid of Hamas.
Great video. Thanks for covering.
Thank you for this video and raising the awareness about Sudan.
Imagine living in a country where every nation have a hand to gain from giving a warlord weaponry to fuck up your day to day.
It's so sad.
Imagine living in a country where any clown with a gun and an agenda can overthrow your joke of a government and prop himself up as a warlord.
Innocent civilians suffering because foreign powers treat their country like a game. What a terrible tragedy....
@@Pl-ax0 step 3 is pillage
It's demonic to destroy people for financial gains...
All Sudan has know since independence is Civil War, Strife, and ethnic conflict. It’s really depressing.
From the likes of it, civil war and race wars is all it knew before European colonisation as well
Just came across your channel. Wow! Very interesting and informative.
thanks i enjoy these kinds of videos. an honest attempt at observations and interpretations.
Simon the only one doing news right, along with Liam and etc
Simon, truly I appreciate the way you keep everyone aware of what’s going on in the world. I don’t know who writes your post but to start out like we should all be wringing our hands, freaking out about the Sudan. They have been in one form of conflict or another for the last 70 years, you could drop 10 billion dollars and 80 cargo ships of food and it would change the country one bit. I’m about to turn 50 this week and I can’t remember a time when the Continent of Africa wasn't on the border of some conflict, genocide, famine etc. I can almost tell you how this is going to play out, china is going to offer high interest loans to whoever is in power for mineral rights, land, water what have you, the country won’t be able to pay it back and they will lose everything and if it’s not the Chinese then it will be the Russians. This reminds me of the video you did about Haiti, it's been a screwed up situation and it will continue to be a screwed up situation. I hate to come off as a mean person but I frankly don’t care anymore. Nothing has changed
There’s credits at the end of every video which lists writers/editors/producers.
You misspoke when you said money and 80 cargo ships of food WOULD make a difference.
My apologies, I mean wouldn’t have made any difference
You do come off as profoundly unempathetic and completely ignorant of the root problems caused by the US in these countries.
Your right I don’t have 50 years of watching Africa put itself into a downward spiral and I’m not at all well read on these subject. I can think of a lot of countries that had a hand in the Continents failures, but to blame just the US makes you sound completely unaware of what’s been going on for decades.
One of my closest friends is Sudanese from Omdurman, he’s a top man… He lived and worked in southern Lebanon for over 12 years….what’s happening in Sudan and Gaza is a catastrophe…. May God ease their pain 🇸🇩🇱🇧🇵🇸
Thank you for making this video
I’ve been praying for the Sudanese people!
My country is burning, my country is dying. This war started about a year ago and I was in Sudan a month before it started. Never did I imagine this would happen. Never did Sudan ever experience something like this. Our once beautiful capital city Khartoum is nothing but rubble and dust, Darfur is a sea of blood, and Al-Jazeera is in a never ending nightmare of rape and torment. My people don’t deserve this. They don’t deserve to be gunned down or raped or have their homes converted into military barracks. Never forget - the UAE is killing us. THE UAE IS KILLING THE SUDANESE PEOPLE.
@@Joejohnson17281YES. The fact that you’re shocked just shows me how much people don’t know about this war or what’s really happening. People see it as a war between the army and Rsf for power. But it’s more than that. The UAE are using the Rsf because they want Sudan and its recourses. Our gold, uranium, fertile land, strategic Red Sea port etc. research it.
and your country is almost forgotten because of hypocrites caring about Gaza and acting like it's more important than Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan.
@@javid_jared.2022But think about it. The Palestinians are suffering from genocide. That’s why everyone’s focusing on it the most. Tbh Sudan is also suffering from a similar thing because the Rsf have made it clear they want to wipe us all out. But what I mean is that there is a crucial reason why everyone is caring mostly about Gaza.
The same is true in Ethiopia. If we don't have Fano, UAEs plan was wider than this. Ethiopia will pray for Sudan. Hopefully UAEs hand, Abiy Ahmed will be thrown soon.
@@meme-wz5vs yes, unfortunately Abiy is a friend of the UAE and I fear for Ethiopia if this continues.
Thank you for this. It is confusing and I wish I saw a way to end it peacefully.
Appreciate the knowledge 💪
I don’t hear about Syria (that has probably killed the most people this century) or Libya (or what’s happening with their food/dam issue) either
I am from Libya. The situation is Libya currently is calm. Libya is split into 2 rival governments and the conflict is now a frozen conflict. ISIS has been completely defeated. The food situation is good, despite the war libya is still one of the richest in Africa because of oil wealth and low population. However recently there is a lot of talk about increased American activity in Western Libya to rival Wagner in East Libya. There are fears of America-Russian proxy war, whoever that’s pure speculation.
With regards to the Dam. The city effected is being rebuilt.
Syria has definitely taken a backseat to newer wars, but I used to hear about it quite a lot in the pre Ukraine war era.
I am still traumatized from daring to look at pictures of Syria in 2016 back when these things were still heavily censored and I had to dig a little to find all the pictures of bombings like we see blasted everywhere on social media of Gaza now. I am still traumatized before that by the collapse of Rana Plaza which killed 1000 people and injured 3000 people gravely in one day because of sweat shop working conditions people were locked inside of. That was my senior year of fashion school and it still destroys me that everyone stopped caring after 2 months of rana plaza and nothing changed for the better.
For people who wonder how the rawanda genocide went by with out a hiccup.... Stories like these make me realiser how... Especially pre internet..
Glad you brought this to the forefront! No one is talking about it at all!
Excellent reporting
I just hope Sudan finds peace and freedom.
That won't happen Unless England colonizes Sudan again.
Can the sound mixer please scoop out the EQ of the sound of Simon’s quick little breaths, they are so loud it’s almost like they’re emphasised.
Thank you for talking about this
Thanks for speaking on this conflict.
I pray for my country ☹️❤️
I haven't been this early since Simon had hair
Simon had hair?
If only Keeps would have sponsored him earlier 🥺
Thanks for your truthful information ❤
Thanks for highlighing this issue
Is it possible to get a list of sources you used? I want to read into this further because I have not really heard about this conflict before.
Just Google it. Articles will pop up.
@@HKim0072nowadays on Google the search system is trash. Plus a bunch of misinformation may come up, or it may just be difficult to navigate such a large amount of information. It's totally fair to ask for sources to try to get some guidance into understanding things more
The fact that this channel has to censor itself just to be able to explain what’s happening IS the problem. The fact that the broader world is too sensitive to be able to talk about rape and murder happening is the problem that allows it to continue
Thankyou for your work, i was not aware as to this conflicts extent
Good analysis.. Thks
Thanks Simon! This is great journalism
The Russo Ukrainian war is worth our attention because its impact sends economic shockwaves around the globe. Ukraine is a large food exporter, and Russia is a large exporter of many things. The Russo-Ukrainian war will affect your life.
The Israel Gaza war will not affect your life, economically, because the Gaza Strip produces almost nothing of value. But the Muslims and Jews killing each other is something a lot of people feel invested in.
The Sudanese civil war isn’t that economically significant to the powers that matter, and the reality that both sides are equally scum generals fighting to preserve their power makes it hard to empathize with either side.
Israel is an ally to the West so that's a reason to care. It's also directly tied to an enemy (Iran) so it affect us.
That shouldn’t change the fact that innocents are suffering.
I mean unless all the people wailing about innocents in Gaza are just performative liars chasing clout.
It’s not just the powers who don’t care. Africans did care either.
@@lansvale28 Dont you mean, Africans DON'T care either ?
Sudan is the biggest exporter of arabic gum, it also exports oil, gold, and many other things. please do the bare minimum of research.
Also you shouldn’t feel comfortable being disensitized because people are dying right now. this conflict may have been going for a long time and you might be neutral about that, but there are real human beings beyond the fog. My friend’s father got stabbed by the RSF when he heard a sound outside his home. she wailed and sobbed and screamed for days. fine, don’t care about the conflict but care about the people within it.
Subscribed. Excellent channel
Always fascinating which wars go by unnoticed and which ones become the cause celebre.
Dealing with antisemitic people calling what's happening in Israel a tragedy, but when you ask them what they think about sudan or Myanmar they give this blank stare.
They don't care about people they just want to be perceived to care and to feel good about themselves.
Because US doesn’t give billions of dollar free money to Sudan or Myanmar but Apartheid Israel. Israel which steal native Palestinians land in West Bank.
"anti-Semitic" people the irony that this comes from a German guilt tripped into thinking the Zionist way of thinking is right.
the war in Sudan sounds like an Ubisoft plotline except it's real...
It's the exact same plot as Far Cry 2, a Ubisoft game. Has two factions, both fought for vaguely relatable causes, involves a lot of foreign mercs and gun runners, and is set in a Sahel state...
It's almost like politics in video games are inspired by real life events.
Thanks for raising awareness about this
Thank u for this
ngl I totally forgot these guys were fighting all this time