July 15, 2024 (KHARTOUM) – An aid agency has warned that the war in Sudan has forced millions of people to flee their homes and created one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises, amid fears more people are likely to die of hunger. “There is no escape from suffering. It has been 15 months of uninterrupted violence and spiralling humanitarian crisis,” said Mathilde Vu, the Advocacy Manager for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Sudan. She added, “When it’s not bullets, it’s hunger that kills.” In Sudan an estimated 7.3 million people have been displaced within the country since mid-April 2023 and two million more have crossed the border into neighbouring countries. Nearly 25 million people need humanitarian assistance. More than half of Sudan’s population are experiencing crisis levels of hunger, while thousands of refugees in neighbouring countries are struggling to feed their children. “People are already dying of hunger. Our colleagues on the ground in Darfur report that pregnant women are losing their children due to malnutrition, and children are dying of hunger on a daily basis,” Vu explained. Sudan is reportedly the world’s largest hunger crisis, with more than half of the country currently experiencing severe food insecurity. …

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