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Several non-governmental organizations warned on Tuesday that Sudan is experiencing a “hunger crisis of historic proportions.” almost through a year and a half of war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) and they expressed regret at the “thunderous silence” of the international community.

“We couldn’t be clearer. ‘Sudan is experiencing a hunger crisis of historic proportions,’ he said. Norwegian Refugee Council, Danish Refugee Council and Mercy Corps in a joint statement in which they made “urgent” appeal to the international community for whatand “solve the country’s huge hunger crisis.”

The silence is heavy. People die of hunger every day, and yet the focus remains on semantic debates and legal definitions.

The organizations expressed regret about this. “All opportunities to avoid a worse situation were missed” and now the people of Sudan face a crisis unprecedented in decades.”

Thus, they argue that at a time when “the peak of the lean season is approaching, “Death and suffering are spreading throughout the country.”.

“There are children dying of hunger”they condemned before remembering that more than 25 million people, which makes up more than half of the population, suffer from acute food shortages.

Many families have been forced to eat only one meal a day for months, and to survive on leaves or insects. The people of Sudan have shown great resilience and strength over the past 17 months: now they have nowhere to go.

In this sense, they emphasized that “attention and “International action has been small and late” and noted that Humanitarian Response Plan 2024 It is only 41 percent funded. “Yet much of the funding comes too late to prevent preventable deaths from hunger.”

“Pressure must be applied to ensure that humanitarian aid flows and reaches those who would otherwise pay with their lives,” they said, noting that NGO teams in the country “have spoken about huge loss of life as extreme violence rocked the country and now they are reporting it famine will probably eclipse this number of victims.”.

The conflict has had a significant impact on food production, devastating the agricultural and livestock sectors.

The NGOs added that their staff “are also witnesses large scale use of food as a weapon in areas controlled by both sides of the conflict.”

So they went into detail about what “About 1.78 million people did not have access to humanitarian aid in June critical due to logistical constraints, “arbitrary refusals and bureaucratic obstacles”although “even when help comes, it is so lacking that meager individual rations are distributed among groups of people.”

In some places, families of ten people received two kilograms of millet for a whole month, which is not enough for even three days. This is the situation for many people in the “lucky” areas where some assistance comes.

For this reason, they stressed that “this It is impossible to express in words the level of suffering endured by the Sudanese people over the past few months” and stressed that “your endurance and resilience will be in vain if you continue to look the other way.” “Indifference must end”they added.

Sudan is mired in civil war following military action that broke out in April 2023. amid growing tensions around integration of the RSF into the Armed Forces, A key part of the agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and resume an open transition following the president’s ouster in 2019. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, suffered in the October 2021 coup that ousted the unity prime minister, Abdullah Hamdok.

(Europe Press)