The Guardian view on Sudan’s vicious war: civilians suffer as outsiders jostle for advantage | Editorial

To say the conflict has been forgotten is too kind: the world is largely indifferent - apart from those who hope to profit there

It's hard to get aid to Sudanese civilians, but weapons flow towards them endlessly through each of the country's neighbours. The destruction they wreak forces people to flee: 10,000 children are displaced each day. The suffering now will be matched by future pain. Girls as young as eight are being raped by fighters,Unicef has reported, and babies born of sexualviolence are being abandoned.

Famine is intensifying and 25 million people are experiencing acute hunger, as the belligerents blockaiddeliveries: Tom Perriello, the US special envoyto Sudan, warned that they are using starvingwomen and children as their arsenal. But thedestruction in the country's agricultural heartlandbodes ill for what lies ahead. The last hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher, in Darfur, isunder assault.