The calamity the world forgot Sudan has long been the forgotten conflict in Africa. Foreign governments have stood by while more than 1.9 million people have died in the country's 15-year civil war between the Islamic government in the Arab north and the black and mostly Christian rebels in the south. Last year, thousands more died in a devastating famine. The United Nations World Food Program mounted its largest airdrop ever to bring food to southern Sudan, where 200 people were dying each day in just two towns. But the disaster was predominantly man-made.
Soldiers regularly displace farmers and burn villages.
Aid groups are worried about next year. More than 2 million Sudanese are still at risk of starvation, with no hope in sight for an end to the war.