International Organizations Describe the Situation in Sudan as Disastrous
Sudan Displaced Camp, AUg 2024 Photo:@Reuters
August 13, 2024 Hour: 8:42 pm
According to UN figures, the war has caused more than 7.9 million people to be internally displaced in a country where there were already 2.8 million internally displaced before the conflict started
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Monday that the humanitarian situation in Sudan is at “a catastrophic breaking point” due to the many crises facing the African country, marked by 16 months of war between the Army and a powerful paramilitary group.
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This “brutal conflict,” according to IOM, has made Sudan the scene of the worst displacement crisis on the planet, while plunging millions of Sudanese into famine, according to a statement by the UN agency.
“Without an immediate, massive and coordinated global response, we risk witnessing tens of thousands of preventable deaths in the coming months. We are at a breaking point, a catastrophic and cataclysmic breaking point,” said IOM’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, Othman Belbeisi.
According to UN figures, the war has caused more than 7.9 million people to be internally displaced in a country where there were already 2.8 million internally displaced before the conflict started on 15 April 2023 and which has made Sudan into a territory with more than 10,7 million displaced persons.
In addition, 97% of these displaced people are “in localities with acute levels of food insecurity or worse,” according to the statement, which recalled that in the camp of Zamzam -located in the western state of North Darfur- half a million people live in “an extreme shortage of food”.
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Fuente: EFE-Africanews
