South
Sudan has now joined the list of the forgotten crises.
The
country was the darling of the international community three or four years ago.
In the meantime, it experienced a very serious civil war, hundreds of thousands
of displacements and a plunge into political chaos. In many ways, such violent
crisis could have been prevented if the UN and the key partners of the country
had played a more courageous supporting role.
Now,
South Sudan is trying to move out of violence. The needs are huge. Including,
to start with, the ones related to basic humanitarian assistance. But the
donors are not responding. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator has just revealed
that the humanitarian appeal for South Sudan remains outside the radar screen,
nobody is paying attention to it. Indeed, he stated that only 2% of the
required humanitarian funds have been raised so far.
It
is time to be a bit louder about South Sudan again.
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