News Monitor
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.
Eighty percent of the record 163 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-hit countries, including potentially 840,000 people confronting famine in Sudan, South Sudan, and Mali.
Without the immediate allocation of resources and a ceasefire, millions of people will see their conditions deteriorate to near catastrophe levels, or worse be simply left with no assistance at all.
The increasingly violent conflict, which started in April 2023, has made the delivery of healthcare - including reproductive care - increasingly challenging, putting mothers and children at risk.
South Sudan is now hosting more than half a million refugees across 30 locations, mainly in refugee camps in Maban, Jamjang, Wedweil, and Gorom. This figure has almost doubled since 2023.
About 2.8 million people in El Fasher in North Darfur have no option to escape or to access much-needed aid, said a group of NGOs working in Sudan. About 500,000 people are in famine-hit Zamzam camp.
Death rates from cholera outbreaks surge in Sudan and Nigeria as flooding, conflict hinder treatment
In Sudan, latest data shows a Case Fatality Rate of 3.1 deaths per 100 confirmed cases – far above the 1% considered the minimum standard. The outbreak in Nigeria has a fatality rate of 2.9%.
“The ongoing battle in greater Khartoum echoes the horror of the initial period of the conflict in April 2023, and could result in a large number of civilian casualties," warned Radhouane Nouicer.
The number of people in need of gender-based violence-related services has increased by 100% since the beginning of the crisis, up to 6.7 million by December 2023, and is estimated to be on the rise.
“The battle for El Fasher has escalated significantly and we have documented increasing incidents of civilians being killed as a result of shelling and airstrikes by both the RSF and the SAF” - Türk.
“The battle for El Fasher has escalated significantly and we have documented increasing incidents of civilians being killed as a result of shelling and airstrikes by both the RSF and the SAF” - Türk.