Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh drew attention to the Sudan war surpassing the 1,000-day mark in a powerful new essay.
The civil war in Sudan marked 1,000 days of fighting on Friday, Jan. 9, and the Duchess of Edinburgh, 60, published a rare essay in The Telegraph titled "The world is ignoring the Sudan war," timed to that turning point.
Sophie — who is married to King Charles' youngest brother, Prince Edward — has made the disproportionate impact of conflict on women and girls a focus of her royal work.
"Standing on the border of Sudan a year ago, I watched a countless stream of people making their way on foot or by donkey-drawn carts into neighboring Chad. Some traveled with families, but others were alone," she began. "In the calm of that moment, I shuddered to imagine what these exhausted, traumatized people had experienced and seen, having fled their towns and the brutality of raging militias."
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