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    World's largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns.

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    World's largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns.
    • March 6, 2024 • 1 year ago
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    The war in Sudan is triggering the world's largest hunger crisis with more than 25million people trapped in a spiral of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned.

    Nine in 10 people across the country of Sudan face emergency levels of hunger and are stuck in areas largely inaccessible due to relentless violence and interference by warring parties, the U.N's World Food Programme said.

    The war is triggering the world's largest hunger crisis with more than half of the country's population trapped in the numbo-jumbo web of food insecurity as warned by a United Nations agency.

    The war, which has also caused the world's largest displacement crisis according to the U.N has left 18 million people acutely food insecure in Sudan and and millions more in neighboring South Sudan and Chad.

    Twenty years ago Dafur was the world's largest hunger crisis and the world rallied behind it with support. But today Darfur has been forgotten.

    Millions if lives as well as the peace and stability of the entire region is at stake, Cindy McCain the Executive director of the World Food Programme said.

    Thousands have been killed and eight million people displaced since fighting broke out in April between the forces loyal to the two generals- army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who leads Sudan's Armed Forces(SAF) and the head of the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF) General Hamdan Daglo.

    Both forces and their allied militais have been accused of killing civilians, ransacking houses and ethnic cleansing to accusations of crimes against humanity and fuelling the exodus from the East African country. 

    The WFP said its now struggling to keep pace with the significant level of need and described the humanitarian response in the two neighbouring states as at a breaking point.

    The World Fodd Programme also says that the crisis has deepened since the program was forced to halt its operations transporting aid from Chad to Sudan's  western Darfur region after local authorities revoked permission for cross border truck convoys. 

    More than one million people have received aid via the route since August last year.

    The warning came as the U.S ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.N had found evidence that girls as young as 14 had been raped by elements of the Rapid Support Forces in WFP storage facilities controlled by the paramilitary faction.

    Thomas Greenfield on Wednesday read out  sections from the U.N panel of experts final report on Sudan , a report she described as " 52 pages of stomach churning findings".

    The U.N has previously said that a spike in gender-based violence since fighting broke out amounts tp crimes against humanity. 

    In July the U.N said that as many as 4.2 million women and girls were at increased risk of sexual violence while a CNN investigation has detailed widespread cases of sexual assault allegedly by Sudanese activists, particularly in the Darfur region where entire communities have reportedly been ravaged by targeted ethnic-based killings.

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