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Sudan – the forgotten war
Amid mass-scale suffering in the ongoing civil war, French arms companies are making huge profits from military technology used in the conflict, in violation of a UN embargo – and no doubt others are complicit too, warns ROGER McKENZIE
A Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, May 2023
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THERE is not and should never be a competition or comparison over which is the most important war taking place in the world.
But we should recognise that decisions are made all the time by the corporate media about which wars they are concerned enough about to give any air time or column inches to.
There can be little doubt that the civil war that has been raging in Sudan for the best (worst) part of two years is barely in the radar of these corporate media types. It simply does not get the coverage of the tragic wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or Ukraine.
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