Humanitarian organisations working in Sudan and its neighbouring countries are urged about the starvation of the country to immediately scale up efforts to avoid the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.
The appeal comes ahead of a humanitarian conference to be hosted in Paris on 15 April by France, the European Union and Germany to help resolve what the UN considers to be “one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, with the potential to trigger the world’s largest hunger emergency.”
The food crisis is a direct consequence of the conflict that broke out on April 15 last year between the two rival generals, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan the head of the Sudanese Regular Army (SAF), and Mohamed Dagalo “Hemedti” leading the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Despite General Dagalo announcing his commitment to a ceasefire early in January this year, and a recent United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cessation of hostilities, the fighting shows no sign of abating.