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The medical supplies, including antibiotics to treat bacterial infections such as pneumonia, landed at Damazine Airport after government approvals to use three airports in Sudan for aid deliveries.
More than 700 trucks carrying food aid are on route to communities across Sudan, including 14 locations that WFP categorizes as “hotspots” due to the severity of food insecurity and famine risk.
Eight kitchens are providing two hot meals a day for 10,000 people in Zamzam camp, south of Al-Fasher, which has witnessed severe fighting, disrupting supplies and forcing tens of thousands from home.
Eight kitchens are providing two hot meals a day for 10,000 people in Zamzam camp, south of Al-Fasher, which has witnessed severe fighting, disrupting supplies and forcing tens of thousands from home.
Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving severely malnourished at one of the last functioning hospitals in south Khartoum.
Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving severely malnourished at one of the last functioning hospitals in south Khartoum.
Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving severely malnourished at one of the last functioning hospitals in south Khartoum.
Data shows 57% of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season as economic pressures, climate extremes, and the effects of Sudan's war drive worsening hunger.
More than 90% of both all-cause and violent deaths in Khartoum State went unrecorded, suggesting the death toll in other regions is also significantly higher than recorded figures.
As childhood vaccinations in Sudan have dropped to dangerously low rates since the conflict erupted, health partners have been working on a series of campaigns to stop the outbreak in its tracks.
Parties to the conflict have escalated the use of airstrikes and shelling in the last month, with civilians bearing the brunt. The death toll has been rising, as well as the impact on livelihoods.
The 1954 Convention regulates the status of stateless people and ensures their access to fundamental rights, while the 1961 Convention offers carefully detailed safeguards to prevent statelessness.
The influx of people arriving in overcrowded conditions with limited access to clean water and sanitation has amplified the risk of cholera transmission in both transit centers and host communities.
The launch follows the arrival of the first consignment of 186,000 doses of the malaria vaccines. The vaccinations will begin immediately, benefitting more than 148,000 children under 12 months.
WFP is urgently appealing to donors to provide early funding for next year’s operations so the food agency can preposition food to prevent spiralling operational costs and hunger through 2025.
Acute food insecurity is to increase in magnitude and severity across 22 countries/territories; the spread of conflict, coupled with climate and economic stressors, is pushing millions to the brink.
While about half of the children are living in host communities, 18% of the other half are in displacement camps, 16% in informal settlements or out in the open, and 9% in cramped public buildings.
Unprecedented flooding has affected more than 81,300 people and displaced 46,500 people in the state. These numbers continue to rise and put vulnerable people at risk of diseases such as cholera.
The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. There is simply no other way to put it. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. For the people of Sudan, this is a living nightmare, said Amy Popel
“The world cannot stand by while Sudan’s children face unspeakable horrors. We must act now to safeguard their future and uphold their right to safety and peace." Executive Director Catherine Russell
Families in Sudan are eating grass to survive in an escalating hunger crisis, with famine-levels of malnutrition spreading across half of Sudan’s 18 states, said Save the Children.
The floods have affected 42 of South Sudan's 78 counties. Fifty-eight health facilities have been submerged in five counties and nearly 90 others are inaccessible, with about 15 main roads cut off.