The persecution of Christians in Sudan’s civil war is β€œappalling” and has been ignored by the international community, a veteran British MP has warned, following a Sky News Arabia investigation into the escalating attacks by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Edward Leigh told The National that atrocities against Christians in Africa receive β€œfar too little attention” after the report disclosed that the minority group of two million in Sudan was suffering drone strikes, church demolitions and intimidation.

β€œThe reality is that the lives of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa are treated as cheap,” said the Conservative MP.

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