THE UN today launched an appeal to raise 4.1 billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) to respond in 2024 to the humanitarian needs of its population Sudanwhich is torn apart by civil war, and the Sudanese who have fled to neighboring countries.
“Ten months of war have deprived the Sudanese population of almost everything: security, home and livelihood”underlines in a statement the coordinator of humanitarian affairs of the UN, Martin Griffiths.
THE war broke out on April 15, 2023 between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (FSR, paramilitary force) of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the former second-in-command of the army, and diplomatic efforts at peace negotiations have so far failed.
The fighting has spread over time, and in Sudan's Al Jazeera state, which before the war was considered the country's breadbasket, nearly 18 million people across Sudan are now facing acute hunger, according to the UN statement.
In Darfur, in the western part of the country, a child dies every two hours in the Zamzam displaced persons camp, one of the largest and oldest in the country, which is home to an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people, the UN warned this week. government organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Across the country, one of the poorest in the world, around 25 million people, roughly half the population, need humanitarian aid to survive. Nearly three-quarters of health facilities are non-functional in the war-torn states, and diseases such as cholera, measles and malaria are rampant.
“Let's do better”
Over 1.5 million people have fled Sudan to escape the battles, fleeing to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan, countries that already hosted significant refugee populations before this war. The United Nations notes that a total of $4.1 billion is needed this year, of which $2.7 billion will enable aid to reach 14.7 million people in Sudan.
“Donors' generosity helps us provide food, shelter, drinking water and education to children, as well as fight the scourge of gender-based violence and care for survivors,” noted Griffiths.
“But last year the request was only funded by less than half. This year we have to do better and there is a greater sense of urgency,” he added, referring to the humanitarian needs inside Sudan.
Of the $4.1 billion, $1.4 billion will enable the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide assistance to approximately 2.7 million people in the countries of the region (refugees and guests in reception centers).
“I have just met displaced families in Ethiopia and inside Sudan – they have lost so much,” UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement.
“I continue to ask the international community to step up its support for the Sudanese people. He desperately needs help, and he needs it now,” he stressed.
Source: News Beast
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