Severe flooding has covered forty counties in South Sudan, affecting almost one million people. In Juba, President Salva Kiir signed into law a South Sudan Truth Commission and a Compensation & Reparation Authority, but he has not created the promised hybrid Criminal Court to investigate South Sudan war crimes.
War continues in Sudan — particularly severe in Gezira State since October, plus a seven-month siege of the city of El Fasher in Darfur which could end at any time with the city falling to General Mohamed “Hemedti” Hamdan Dagalo’s Rapid Support Force. I am distressed by the report that in Khartoum the RSF has turned its guns on those staffing the “emergency response rooms”, which have been providing one meal per day for starving people. There are no indications of serious peace talks in the offing, as the Biden Administration winds down.
Scrolling down, you can read details of Sudan’s humanitarian disaster from my friend Thomas H. Staal, a retired Counselor in the U. S. Agency for International Development, who recently returned to the U.S. after three months in Nairobi directing relief efforts in Sudan.
