Sudan capitalises on food exports while receiving aid for starvation in Darfur

The Sudanese government should exercise some accountability and take care of its' people first and foremost before seeking to accumulate personal revenues. If they take care of the people, perhaps provide them with tools and land to cultivate crops, they could potentially both feed them and achieve some level of prosperity.

It seems they have enough to support their own people, but will they if Aid is removed ?

A large proportion of the population in countries like Sudan survive on aid alone. Whilst I can see the school of thought that suggests holding back aid may encourage the country to sort out some of it's problems the reality is that it is the poor and needy who suffer.

The West has a social responsibility to do all it can to support those who do not even receive the basic conditions that we are all entitled to, health care, clean water, food in their belly and education. Failure to provide this should be embarrassing to us.

I will never understand how humans can be so vile towards one another.

No easy answers and no quick solutions. This is certainly happening in other places right now as it has in the past when our sanctions against Cuba backfired on us. What we need now is to worry less about sanctions on focus more on relaying international aid to the African Union. Also the U.N. needs to nut up and declare genocide so its forced to act on its obligation to prevent genocide as it declared it would at the 1948 U.N. convention.

Ah, but this is exactly whats wrong over there, the elitist government taking everything for themselves and leaving the people of the nation with nothing.

It's happening all over the world to some extent or another, and we will never see otherwise in our days here if we don't address the problems instead of the symptoms.

Even as this is happening in Sudan, Morales in Bolivia is being threatened with impeachment by the people profiting from resource extraction for attempting to redistribute wealth in his nation.

Things here aren't so dandy either, people living in obscene luxury while others cannot afford basic health care and education. Our own middle class is being systematically eliminated.

I don't propose that there are any easy answers, but can't we do better than this, really?

Look up Amartya Sen. Aid won't work without a liberal government. It's pointless and just prolongs the fighting. Operation Lifeline Sudan, the biggest aid accord in the region, is routinely seen as a failure that prolonged the fighting.

Sudan's ill-response to its people's basic needs is obviously atrocious. That being said, its economy is almost completely based around its agricultural products (and oil, big surprise). Order cannot be restored to the Sudan region without the proper funding for the countless reclamation projects that will be needed in the future. To cut off aid would stunt an already damaged economy and almost guarantee an end to what little food assistance the people are getting right now. It would only throw fuel on the fire.

Should Sudan continue to receive international aid even as it makes tons of money from food exports? It's not like they're helping to feed their own people, so what would happen if the aid stopped? I think there should be trade sanctions on Sudan until it agrees to help feed its people in Darfur. What are your thoughts?