Sorry Sudanese people
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:57 (seven months ago) link
Those waters had upended her life, but also provided a food option — not a desirable one, but one of the few left.Water lilies. They’d been keeping her family alive for two years.
They were bitter. Hard to digest. They required hours of manual labor — cutting, pounding, drying, sifting — just to be made edible. Nyaguey could still remember her initial shock at eating them, figuring they’d be a short-term measure. And now, with the floodwaters holding their ground, she could trace a two-year arc of distress in what the lilies had become: sustenance so vital that people were slogging farther and farther into the waters to find them, before someone else did
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/02/south-sudan-climate-floods-war/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:53 (six months ago) link
Heartbreaking
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 November 2023 15:11 (six months ago) link
the number of displaced people there, and the number of refugees, are just devastating, overwhelming even. it's just a terrible situation. and of course the Wagner Group made sure to be involved.
― omar little, Friday, 3 November 2023 15:59 (six months ago) link
Very sad
― felicity, Friday, 3 November 2023 18:02 (six months ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67450204
The evil rebels have gained more ground, but now another group is saying they will help the government
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:18 (six months ago) link