Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
A group of United Nations agencies and humanitarian groups sounded the alarm Friday that 18 million Sudan ese are acutely hungry as a civil war that began in April 2023 continues to ravage the country. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee , a group of 12 U.N. agencies and 7 humanitarian organizations, issued a statement on the staggering scale of hunger and insecurity in Sudan , including in the Darfur region in the country's west.
. The food shortage has been worsened by drought and flooding, likely exacerbated by climate change. A major obstacle to aid delivery is not just lack of funds but also the civil war, which has seriously impeded the organizations aid efforts. 'If they continue to be prevented from providing aid in Sudan rapidly and at scale, a famine will likely take hold in large parts of the country,' Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs , one of the
agencies, said Friday in Geneva, according to Voice of America. 'More people will flee to neighboring countries. Children will succumb to disease and malnutrition, and women and girls will face even greater suffering and dangers.' Sudan has one of the highest numbers of internally displaced people of any country in the world, roughly 10 million, and the number continues to climb as the war goes on.
warned that it may only get worse. 'More than 800,000 civilians are bracing for an imminent large-scale attack, which would unleash catastrophic humanitarian consequences both in the city and across Darfur,' the authors of the statement said, warning that the effects of the war on everyday people are dire. 'Horrific attacks against civilians—including sexual violence—as well as hospitals and schools are multiplying,' they also said. Clementine Nkweta-Salami, U.N.
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