271 - Getting to Yes, II: The Globe's Most Consuming Humanitarian Crisis
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Gaza and Ukraine, as I wrote on June 17, are intractable conflicts. Getting to a negotiated "yes" to stanch hostilities and halt the slaughter of innocents is - so far - a superhuman endeavor that has eluded would-be peacemakers for all of the reasons that I advanced in post #270. Equally difficult is stopping the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis. In Sudan, at least 150,000 mostly civilians have lost their lives in the fourteen-month-old internecine war that has convulsed the giant country. More than 25 million people are starving and in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. In Darfur province alone, 1.7 million people are without food, the U.N. says. At a refugee camp south of El Fasher, one child today dies every two hours. The consequences of Sudan’s war are rippling across the Spanish-sized region.
271 - Getting to Yes, II: The Globe's Most Consuming Humanitarian Crisis
271 - Getting to Yes, II: The Globe's Most…
271 - Getting to Yes, II: The Globe's Most Consuming Humanitarian Crisis
Gaza and Ukraine, as I wrote on June 17, are intractable conflicts. Getting to a negotiated "yes" to stanch hostilities and halt the slaughter of innocents is - so far - a superhuman endeavor that has eluded would-be peacemakers for all of the reasons that I advanced in post #270. Equally difficult is stopping the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis. In Sudan, at least 150,000 mostly civilians have lost their lives in the fourteen-month-old internecine war that has convulsed the giant country. More than 25 million people are starving and in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. In Darfur province alone, 1.7 million people are without food, the U.N. says. At a refugee camp south of El Fasher, one child today dies every two hours. The consequences of Sudan’s war are rippling across the Spanish-sized region.