SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: DW - Why is the world ignoring the Sudan civil war?

14/6/2024: DW - Why is the world ignoring the Sudan civil war?, by Cathrin Schaer

DW explored factors resulting in why Sudan’s war is being “overlooked”.

Melissa Fleming, the under-secretary-general for global communications at the UN, attributed the lack of attention to psychic numbing," which refers to “the sad reality that people feel more apathetic towards a tragedy as the number of victims increases."

DW add that “research has previously shown that civil wars — especially those seen as internal matters in a faraway country — get less attention than conflicts where one country attacks another”

Sudan expert Roman Deckert attributed the lack of attention on Sudan to the “complexity of the situation, where neither side is obviously ‘good or evil’”, with other contributing factors including “a deeply ingrained, potentially even subconscious, racism or Eurocentrism…where outsiders incorrectly perceive the fighting as somehow ‘uncivilized’ or ‘typical’".