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At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the body alerted
The UN World Food Programme warned that the 10-month-long war in Sudan has meant malnutrition is soaring across the region and is creating the world’s largest displacement crisis. At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the body warned.
The WFP also deplored a lack of resources to try to address the humanitarian crisis. Thousands of families are being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week, said Annabel Symington, a spokesperson for the WFP. Some 1.8 million people fleeing the war mainly have found refuge in neighbouring Chad and South Sudan but these grapple with their fragilities.
In South Sudan, families fleeing Sudan now make up 35% of those facing catastrophic levels of hunger, despite only accounting for 3% of the population. Malnutrition rates are increasing rapidly among children who are languishing in temporary transit camps, like the camp in Renk.
According to the WFP, approximately 4% of children under 5 years of age crossing the border into South Sudan are malnourished upon entering the country 18 million people are acutely food insecure in Sudan and around 3.8 million Sudanese children under 5 years old are malnourished.
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But those crossing the border into South Sudan are joining families already struggling with slashed rations and extreme hunger. Five years of war and unprecedented floods have pushed South Sudan itself into a dire situation with more than 75% of the nation’s 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and nearly three million on the brink of starvation.
