The aim is to provide assistance to nearly 26 million people this year. Since April 2023, Sudan has been locked in a brutal conflict between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The UN agencies said the civil war has displaced 12 million people, of whom around 3.5 million have fled the country. Famine conditions have already been reported in at least five locations in Sudan, including in displacement camps in Darfur and in the western Nuba Mountains, the UN said. \”Sudan is a humanitarian emergency of shocking proportions,\” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said in a statement. \”Famine is taking hold. An epidemic of sexual violence rages. Children are being killed and injured. The suffering is appalling,\” he said. ‘Catastrophic hunger is expected to worsen by May when the lean season begins’, the UN warned, warning that \”already strained health systems may collapse\” in the war-torn country.
