The events of the last year have made it crystal clear to me that the lives of people from certain parts of the globe—not only from Sudan, but also from Gaza, Congo and so many other conflict zones of the Global South—are deemed entirely disposable. That the world will look back to Rwanda and say, ‘how could we let it happen?’ and yet stand by as it happens again, and again, and again.

It’s not that people in the West don’t care, necessarily; it’s that those with wealth and influence keep stories from the region out of the news, or at least sufficiently under-covered, that popular anger and a demand for action never materialize.