Why is there a global lack of outrage against what's happening in Darfur?

The Telegraph has an interesting perspective on the topic.

Aggrieved by Sudan's decision - since rescinded - to expel Save the Children from Darfur for complaining about an air raid that narrowly missed their clinic in Tawila, I entertained uncharitable thoughts that are still valid.

Apartheid in South Africa, I recalled, brought virtually the whole world into action against it. Yet something identical to apartheid between Arab and African in Sudan, which has kept a ruinous civil war going for a generation and recently provoked suffering in Darfur on a scale beyond anything South Africa experienced, provokes no global outrage.

The government of Sudan in Khartoum has a far shrewder sense of how the world wags than we have and knows that it can do much as it pleases in Darfur with impunity.

Some argue that Iraq is at the root of our pusillanimity, that it has sapped the will and confidence of Britain and America, and cost them political capital and credibility.

But the United Nations is equally supine. Whatever Khartoum did, the UN would not be able to persuade the Security Council to use sanctions against Sudan or to embargo its increasingly valuable oil exports, in which China has a big interest…