I decided to focus this week’s column on a region that gets far too little attention: Africa. And on Sudan, specifically. Last night, I had the pleasure of attending the International Rescue Committee’s annual dinner, where they bestowed their Freedom Award on Lynsey Addario, a renowned photojournalist who has covered every major conflict zone in the last twenty-five years. She shared stories and made a number of important observations, but the one that stuck with me is that she had covered the original war in Darfur back in the early 2000s and had recently gone back to Sudan, only to find the same situation there more than twenty years later.
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