Dave Patterson: Sudan Remains the Most Under-Reported Foreign Policy Crisis

Thousands have been killed, and there looks like no end to it.

Headlines and major stories focus on the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the ongoing conflict in Iran, and what appears to be a growing tariff dispute with Canada. There’s another deadly international conflict, however, that the American media has barely covered: the civil war in Sudan. The fighting has been going on for nearly four years and has claimed a reported 59,000 lives – probably an estimate on the low side. Furthermore, secondary consequences include more than 13 million people being displaced and enormous areas of Sudan suffering famine.

Point of Order: Albanese makes it easier for Kiwis to become Aussie citizens....

.....and that looks likely to make emigration even more attractive

Travel has loomed large in Beehive press statements over the past 24 hours or so.

The PM has travelled to Australia, the Minister of Education is off to the US for a teaching conference, kiwis have returned to the Tongariro Forest, and the last live farm animals to travel by sea from this country have been shipped out of New Plymouth.

The PM’s press statement today is the most significant insofar as it tells us we all have been given a strong incentive to make our own travel plans and emigrate to Australia.