The humanitarian situation in Sudan is rapidly deteriorating, UN humanitarian agencies have warned.
The UN has attributed the sudden collapse of the situation to population movements increase in an increasingly dangerous environment.
Jacqueline Wilma, head of the UNHCR sub-office in Port Sudan, highlighted the desperation of civilians attempting to flee the region.
She explained that a large number of people remain in El Fasher, while others are on the move but are prevented from continuing their journeys due to the danger or the risk of being returned to El Fasher.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also warned of worsening hunger and a cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 3,500 lives.
WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier stated, “Sudan is experiencing one of the world’s worst food crises, with more than 21 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity as of last September.”
Lindmeier confirmed that famine is widespread in El Fasher and Kadugli and now threatens 20 other areas in Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan.
According to the United Nations Mine Action Service, the danger stems not only from food shortages and disease but also from explosives and fighting.
The UN Human Rights Council held a session last Friday to discuss the situation in El Fasher, Sudan, and to consider a request from member states to send a fact-finding mission regarding mass killings that occurred during the city’s fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Large areas of Sudan are witnessing an escalation in fighting between the army and the RSF, with the conflict spreading from the Darfur region, which the RSF seized control of last month, to neighboring Kordofan.
