{"id":37058,"date":"2024-11-25T01:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=37058"},"modified":"2024-11-25T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:37:22","slug":"european-official-the-situation-in-sudan-is-worse-than-ukraine-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/european-official-the-situation-in-sudan-is-worse-than-ukraine-and-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"European Official: The Situation in Sudan is Worse Than Ukraine and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, said on Sunday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worse than the crises in Ukraine, Gaza, and Somalia combined.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In an interview with the German News Agency following his visit to Darfur and other areas, Egeland stated, \u201cThe lives of 24 million people are at risk in Sudan.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added, \u201cWe are witnessing a strong countdown towards famine, despair, and the collapse of an entire civilization.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egeland emphasized that conflicts like those in Ukraine and the Middle East should not distract from the suffering of civilians in Sudan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He further stated, \u201cIf we agree that human life has equal value anywhere in the world, then Sudan should be at the top of the list of important matters right now.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egeland explained that he had witnessed the consequences of the conflict, which has been ongoing for 600 days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, \u201cIn many areas, including those where the council previously operated, there were clear signs of a horrific war. House after house, area after area, was burned, destroyed, and looted.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egeland warned that the situation is \u201con the brink of exploding,\u201d similar to what happened in 2015, when millions of refugees from war-torn areas, including Syria, crossed the Mediterranean Sea and reached the borders of European countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added, \u201cI don\u2019t think Germany, the European Union, the Scandinavian countries, and France want that.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He concluded that investing in Sudan will not only help deter citizens from seeking better opportunities elsewhere, but it is also \u201cthe only thing\u201d that aligns with European values and interests.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, said on Sunday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worse than the crises in Ukraine, Gaza, and Somalia combined. In an interview with the German News Agency following his visit to Darfur and other areas, Egeland stated, \u201cThe lives of 24 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37060,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37058\/revisions\/37060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}