The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of Sudanese refugees displaced by the ongoing civil war face escalating hunger and malnutrition due to critical funding shortages. Food aid to refugees in neighboring countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, and the Central African Republic could cease within two months without urgent financial support. The WFP has called on the international community to sustain its relief efforts to prevent a deepening humanitarian crisis. Concurrently, the WFP has begun airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, where conflict has displaced communities and pushed some to the brink of famine. In Sudan's Darfur region, the International Criminal Court's deputy prosecutor has stated there are reasonable grounds to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the weaponization of rape and deprivation of food and water, are being committed. The UN Security Council has been informed that the humanitarian crisis in Darfur has reached an intolerable state, with famine escalating and civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and humanitarian convoys being targeted amid ongoing civil war. Although an official famine declaration is hindered by lack of data access, mass starvation is reported in areas like Al-Fashir.
UN says depth of suffering and humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur has reached "intolerable state,” with famine escalating and hospitals, humanitarian convoys and other civilian infrastructure being targeted as civil war continues to impact the region https://t.co/SN5ADyZJ8n
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Aid sources say an official famine declaration is impossible given the lack of access to data, but mass starvation has all but gripped Al-Fashir https://t.co/pRmsHyIQwL