The weaponization of food in Sudan
A new Dispatch by Shahad Elfaki
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has declared famine twice this year: in Gaza and in Sudan. Our Issue Sixteen Dispatches section addresses the role of food in systems of power around the world, beginning with those two regions. In our newest installment, Shahad Elfaki analyzes the way that both major armed forces in the ongoing civil war in Sudan have wielded access to food — including humanitarian aid — as a weapon, while the international community looks on with apathy. As Elfaki explains, the warring parties’ transformation of food into a tool of domination extends a tragic legacy in Sudan that stretches back to the era of Anglo-Egyptian colonization. Read Elfaki’s piece online today.
A Grotesque Deadlock | Armies Block Aid While Civilians Starve in Sudan
SHAHAD ELFAKI
Convoys of food and medicine sit idle; trucks loaded with sorghum and lentils bake in the sun as bureaucrats debate permissions. Each side blames the other while civilians waste away.