Sudan’s Humanitarian Overview: An Eerie Crisis

Five months into the war, the humanitarian situation is worsening each day. A Beeb’s weekly reports show that the country is heading into total collapse within the upcoming period. Here’s a brief overview concerning some sectors:

Internal Displacement and Refugees:

• More than five million people have been forcibly displaced.
• More than one million crossed the borders to the neighboring countries, mainly Chad, Egypt, and South Sudan.
• Almost one million Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers are displaced.
• U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has announced one/three/six million in Humanitarian assistance funding for the country.
• The UN has increased its refugee response appeal from — to one billion.

Agriculture and Food Security:

• More than forty-two of the population are estimated to face crisis/emergency levels of food insecurity.
• Overall, cultivation has been widely disrupted in areas near heavy fighting with little to no planting. And in more secure areas, it was delayed.
• Due to cultivation being wildly disrupted, prices of staple foods are increasing by up to two hundred percent.
• It is also anticipated that from October, the number of food-insecure will be the highest ever recorded for a post-harvest season.
• Cases of severe malnutrition have increased by three hundred percent in El-Jazira state.

Children:

• Almost fourteen million children are in woeful need of Humanitarian assistance and protection.
• The UNICEF reached More than five million, and around three and a half million are acutely malnourished.
• Two million children are displaced internally and across the border.
• Three, three, three, zero three. Children will be born between October and December, and many thousands of them will die by the end of this year.
• Children lose access to education on all levels and are at heightened risk of forced recruitment and other protection issues.

The overall Humanitarian situation in Sudan is worsening each day, and Humanitarian actors have issued a call requesting more attention and funding in response to the ongoing crisis.

Sources: ReliefWeb, OUCHA, SI, USAID.