Is It Too Much to Ask to Care About Sudan?

Ms. Curry is a former anchor and national and international correspondent for NBC News. She reported from South Sudan.

One day in February, under a relentless midday sun, I arrived in a small village in South Sudan, just across the border from the Sudanese civil war, which will enter its fourth year on Wednesday.

Twelve women, some of whom had fled the bombing of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and others who had run from ground attacks on small towns and remote villages, were sitting in a circle together under a tent where they had gathered........

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