Let's help Omnia evacuate Sudan so she can continue to advocate for her people.

Deaths in Sudan could reach 10,000 per day in the coming months if the mass displacement of people caused by a year-long civil war sparks famine. The dire projection, which represents a worst case scenario and would put the conflict on a par with the worst days of the Battle of the Somme, was being urgently debated by Western envoys and diplomats this week. Other actors, including the World Food Programme, say the estimates are exaggerated but accept that a major humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding.

It is already the world’s biggest single displacement crisis, with up to 11 million people, including four million children, forced from their homes and farms. Millions of refugees have fled into neighbouring Chad and South Sudan. And, across the region, some 25 million people are now unable to feed themselves properly, with at least five million on the cusp of famine, according to the United Nations.

I know Gaza and the West Bank are in danger, but please if you can, donate to Sudan and Congo. There is a famine going on over there, and aid is able to go there, but it just isn't enough.

There is unfortunately an anti-black bias in the world which minimizes the amount of coverage Sudan and Congo. So please if you can find it within you to donate whatever you're able to those causes, it would go a long way.

”In the more optimistic scenario, 200,000 people will die”

Where are people really dying of hunger?

Here is a short video made by the Turkish news network TRT regarding the famine in Sudan following the war there. Famine suffered by many millions.

The great display of the selective interests of the West.

No one is protesting. No one is dropping aid to the Sudanese from the air. They are not at the top of headlines and the world agenda.

They don't have public relations like the Palestinians.

The Palestinian lie succeeds and brings down the West that "forgets" where aid is acutely needed.

The English subtitles are especially for the benefit of the decision makers in the Biden administration and in other Western countries...

The Palestinians are not the most poor of the world.

They are champions of lying professionally to the media to further their narrative.

Update to the petition 3/Feb/2024:

*نحث الأمم المتحدة ووكالاتها الإنسانية على إعلان حالة المجاعة من المستوى الخامس على المستوى الوطني في السودان ومعالجة الوضع وفقًا لذلك.*

*We urge the United Nations & its humanitarian agencies to declare a phase-5 famine state in Sudan at a national level & address the situation accordingly.*

A previous update on the petition added 29/Jan/2024 with some important info:

Since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan on 15 April 2023, a deadly combination of displacement, direct fighting, scarcity of agricultural inputs and destruction of the country’s food industry infrastructure has placed more than 24 million Sudanese (nearly 60% of the total population) in direct need of humanitarian assistance, and about 19.9 million Sudanese (around 49.75% of the total population) in dire need of food aid, with 17.7 million of them in acute need of food aid.

The state of famine has affected the whole country in various proportions. In West Darfur, 60% of the total population are affected by acute food shortage. In the capital Khartoum, the percentage of population in acute food shortage is 55%.  In South Kordofan state the percentage is 48%. Even areas not affected by war, such as Kassala state in Eastern Sudan, have seen 43% of the population affected by acute food shortage. Furthermore, agricultural areas such as Gezira state reported 31% of the population in acute food shortage. It should be noted that the threshold for declaring famine is 20% of the population.

Fuck the RSF

Worst famine in any recent history?

Summary of this long-ass post: If u wanna join my Freerice Group, the joining code is: 2ZJPCWMH and anyone & everyone is welcome to join!

This is probably incredibly sick and f*cked-up of me and like a very vile part of my ED-brain, but one way I try to assuage the intense guilt I feel from restricting/fasting (seemingly) by choice, while there are devastating & unspeakably horrific hunger & starvation crises occurring throughout the world, is by spending my free time doing those "click-to-help" donation site thingies to fund aid and food donations to starving populations (the two I use most are Arab.org in their Click-To-Help section https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/ and The Hunger Site (although I have read some very sus things about them on reddit??? I only really resort to this one bc my middle school health teacher had us do this one every day for a week, so I implicitly trusted her judgment for years bc she was known for having 6 prior mar!juana possessions on her record).

Anyways, the other thing I do daily is I play the Freerice game (you can find it on the World Food Programme Website). It's a free trivia game where as you play, you generate donations (the site was previously were funded purely by ads, but recently they were able to acquire several large sponsors to cover the donations instead, since they said it's more consistent and reliable that way) for the World Food Programme, which uses the money to organize and distribute food aid all over the world-- but especially to populations suffering from emergency-level food insecurity and starvation rates (such as in Palestine, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, etc-- there's a list on the WFP website of the areas that are under the "Emergencies" section).

p.s. The "grain of rice" in the game don't represent actual real grains of rice, they're just a conceptual representation to help you visualize the worth of your donations adding up.

anyways. So what my mentally ill brain does is: for every "bowl of rice" (a certain donation amount) I do on Freerice, my ED-ass thinks, "Oh good, for every 'bowl' I 'fill' it's literally keeping me distracted from binge-eating and INSTEAD, all the food I COULD have been eating in that time I was playing-- I can use that distraction from eating to generate legit food donations for real starving people who actually WANT to eat and desperately NEED the nutrition. As far as coping-mechanisms go, this one isn't so bad!"

That's how my brain-fogged, guilt-ridden mind works. I'm so ashamed of choosing to deny myself food, when I know for a fact that there's stuff going on in the world like the Israeli government using forced-starvation as a tool to commit genocide against Palestinians by creating and maintaining a man-made famine. So i try to mentally justify my ED behavior by imagining that the time i spend not-eating while playing Freerice is a way of somehow magically transferring my ~potential food ingestion~ to another person somewhere else who ACTUALLY needs it.

ANYWAYS, my point to all this rambling is that I wanted to offer my Freerice Group Code to anyone on EDblr (or just anyone in general) who might want to join my Group and collectively track the donations we generate together :')

My Freerice Group name is "Rat Terrier Devotees" (bc I have a Teddy Roosevelt Terrier lol) and the Group Code is: 2ZJPCWMH Please feel free to join (regardless if you're EDblr or not, obvi)!