By now, we’ve all seen the images from Gaza. Of starving children, of skeletal arms, of babies so thin they resemble ghosts. Rightly, the world has turned its attention to this horror, however belatedly. What is harder to explain is why Sudan’s starvation crisis—just as urgent, just as human—barely registers in the global imagination. Why does it come only as a footnote? Why is it that certain forms of suffering seem to trigger outrage and mobilization, while others are quietly endured in the background?