Will Sudan be the Gateway Drug for the Conversation around Humanitarian Crises around the World?

I have been so proud of every single one of my wonderful friends who have turned their profile picture blue on their social media platforms to stand in solidarity with Sudan.

I am yet to do so.

I love the idea of the profile picture change — standing in solidarity for a country which is currently facing real hardship with people dying, protesting for their chance at living in a transparently democratic society.

However, I cannot bring myself to do this when there are so many other countries around Africa and other parts of the world experiencing violence and disasters.

Earlier in the week, over 20 people were killed in northern Cameroon by Boko Haram. 160 people have died during fighting between ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last weekend, nearly 100 people were massacred in Mali — just one of many attacks over the past months, including an attack in March which resulted in the death of 160 civilians. People have died in further attacks in Burkina Faso and northern Nigeria. This is all just in the past week.

And that’s just the violence… That’s ignoring the landslides in Uganda, the famine in South Sudan, the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and…