More than half the population in Sudan – 25.6 million people – are experiencing crisis levels of hunger, while thousands of refugees in neighbouring countries are struggling to feed their children. [Norwegian Refugee Council]
The Sudanese people are living through a “nightmare of violence, hunger and displacement”, and countless others are facing “unspeakable atrocities”, including widespread rapes, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Monday. [Al Jazeera]
Sudan’s military and its paramilitary rival have blocked the UN’s humanitarian agencies from delivering aid to large areas of the war-torn country where people are dying from starvation. The country’s food crisis is a grim illustration of what happens when a critical part of the global system for combating famine falters. [Reuters]
“People are already dying of hunger. Our colleagues on the ground in Darfur report that pregnant women are losing their children due to malnutrition, and children are dying of hunger on a daily basis,” [Norwegian Refugee Council]
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