International humanitarian organizations reported that 300 thousand refugees in the Zamzan camp, of the eight million generated by the civil war between the president of the Sovereign Transitional Council (CST), General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, and his nemesis, the paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, suffer from malnutrition.

Children are the most affected by the crisis due to the lack of food and adequate medical care, according to testimonies from sources on the ground who estimate the mortality rate in the facility almost 10 times higher than expected and two and a half times about the emergency rule.

Volunteers trying to alleviate the situation admitted that seven percent of children suffer from a severe state of malnutrition who will die “within weeks if they are not treated urgently.”

The UN Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, and the Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, asked the international community to create a support fund of four thousand 100 million dollars to provide emergency assistance to the nearly eight million people displaced by the conflict.

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