Genuine question for the Zim community: why aren't we talking about the AU's failure on Sudan?
12 million displaced. The world's largest humanitarian crisis. Children arriving in Chad traumatized, malnourished, having witnessed massacres. And the African Union an organization representing 1.4 billion people and some of the most resource-rich nations on earth, has produced nothing that matches the scale of what's happening.
Yes, we may say these resources its an investment in developing a continent lagging behind other continents like Europe and Asia, but am sure you can agree with me here our leaders don't seem to be focusing on that.
For context: the US alone was contributing billions in humanitarian aid annually before USAID was gutted. You can criticise Trump's decision all you want, but it exposes something worth noting here: Africa had outsourced the responsibility of caring for its own people to Western donors. And now that those donors are pulling back, we're exposed.
Chad — a country that itself survives on international aid — is carrying the weight of over a million Sudanese refugees. Meanwhile, the AU holds summits.
As Zimbabweans, we are not innocent observers here. Our government is part of this silence. And we should be saying it louder.
Africa has the population, the resources, and the institutions to lead on this. The failure is political, not material. And the people dying for that failure are children in camps in eastern Chad who did nothing wrong except be born on this continent.
Somebody tell me what I'm missing because I genuinely don't understand how we are this comfortable with this.