Edem Wosornu, director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), stated that the situation can be described as catastrophic and the nearly two-year conflict between the army and the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted immense suffering and turned the country into hell.
In a report to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, Wosornu stressed that more than 12 million people, including 3.4 million who have fled across Sudan’s borders, have been displaced.
Additionally, more than half of the country’s 24.6 million people are suffering from acute hunger.
The non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF, in French), the leading provider of healthcare and nutrition services, informed that it has been forced to suspend its aid operations due to the deteriorating security as a result of an upsurge in armed clashes.
Since mid-April 2023, Sudan has been embroiled in an internal war, following a power struggle between the Army’s Chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
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