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Nearly 230,000 children, new mothers risk dying of hunger in Sudan

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 13 Mar 2024 05:25
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Save the Children warns that about 222,000 severely malnourished children and more than 7,000 new mothers are likely to die" under the current levels of funding.

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  • Nearly 230,000 children, new mothers risk dying of hunger in Sudan
    Displaced Sudanese are pictured at a school, where families took refuge, near Gadaref city in Sudan on March 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Without critical action, nearly 230,000 children and new mothers in Sudan are "likely to die from hunger," Save the Children warned on Wednesday.

Nearly 11 months of fighting between the forces of Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, his former deputy and commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has killed thousands and displaced eight million people in the northeast African country, the United Nations says.

The bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into "one of the worst" nutrition situations in the world, expressed Arif Noor, Save the Children's country director in Sudan.

"Nearly 230,000 children, pregnant women and new mothers could die in the coming months," the British non-governmental organization warned.

The charity emphasized that "more than 2.9 million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished and an additional 729,000 children under five are suffering from severe acute malnutrition -- the most dangerous and deadly form of extreme hunger."

It warned that "about 222,000 severely malnourished children and more than 7,000 new mothers are likely to die" under the current levels of funding which "only covers 5.5 percent" of Sudan's total needs.

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The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) sounded the alarm on Sudan this month, warning the war risked triggering the world's largest hunger crisis.

Already, more than half of all Sudanese, including 14 million children, require humanitarian assistance to survive, the United Nations says.

The UN has described a "climate of sheer terror." reporting the use of heavy artillery in densely populated urban areas, sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the destruction of hospitals and schools.

A report before the UN Human Rights Council details gross violations and abuses of international human rights law and possible war crimes.

Earlier in March, the UN's human rights chief Volker Turk described the conflict a "living nightmare" and said it had "slipped into the fog of global amnesia."

The conflict has driven 18 million people into food insecurity, including five million who are only one stage away from famine.

Humanitarian organizations have been prevented from entering Sudan or moving freely and have come under attack by both sides.

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