How to Prevent Another Darfur

• Desperately Seeking Diplomacy

  Daniel Solomon, STANDIntroduction

Photographs by Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times Rebel forces in the Nuba Mountains, left, and civilians taking shelter from the Sudanese government’s bombs.

When South Sudan became a country last July, there was cause for celebration. But Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has since been bombing Nuba, a region sympathetic to South Sudan, and cut off aid. Many people in Nuba have retreated to caves, where they are at risk of starvation.
Nicholas Kristof wrote last last week that what he had witnessed there felt like “an echo” of Darfur. How can world leaders prevent another humanitarian disaster from taking place in Sudan?