Please check out this article by Gilbert Ashcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. His first paragraph sums up the Western snub of Africa's Sudan very well:
The Sudanese tragedy continues to worsen, and the world is almost ignoring it, preoccupied quasi exclusively with the ongoing war in Ukraine, just as it previously ignored the horrific wars that have taken place over decades in and around Sudan, as well as other, still more deadly wars in sub-Saharan Africa. It is as if there was a racial ranking for the attraction of international attention, according to which interest in conflicts diminishes as the skin of the protagonists becomes darker. At the forefront come conflicts between blond whites, such as the Russians, Ukrainians, and other Europeans, followed by the East Asians, and after them with gradually darker skin: the Caucasians, the Levantines (the war in Syria has certainly received much greater attention than today’s war in Sudan, even if it is legitimate for the Syrians to complain about the lack of interest in their country’s fate – all things are relative indeed), the Yemenis, the peoples of Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Horn of Africa, all the way to Black Africa.
https://gilbert-achcar.net/sudans-huge-tragedy
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