On the eve of the first year since its outbreak, the conflagration between General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, president of the Sudanese Transitional Council (CST), and Mohamed Hamdan, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, has claimed some 15,000 lives and displaced some 10 million people.

The figures, easy to read, point to a human tragedy of planetary magnitude, officials from United Nations agencies involved in the provision of food to needy communities warned.

In that category is World Food Program (WFP) Director Cindy McCain, who said hours ago that the conflict between the two men ‘has destroyed the lives of millions of people in that northeastern African country.’

With one foot on the plane’s steps after a visit to the scene of the catastrophe, Ms. Crawford warned that the war in Sudan threatens to ‘trigger the biggest hunger crisis on the planet.’

Her analysis was based on the fact that 18 million human beings are at risk of starvation, the most needy of whom are those caught in the crossfire in the areas where the fighting is taking place.

Twenty years ago the world turned to support Darfur, with the world’s biggest famine crisis, but today the people of Sudan have been forgotten, the PAM official concluded.

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