According to a report released this week by the humanitarian groups Medical Teams International and Norwegian Church Aid, less than 1,800 calories are consumed each day by Khartoum’s families.
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Between August and September, it polled more than 1,250 families and 70 healthcare facilities in Khartoum, showing that 97 percent of households are experiencing food shortages.
According to Dirk Hanekom, the country director of Sudan for Norwegian Church Aid, “the need for humanitarian assistance in Khartoum is urgent.” He warned that if the situation in the capital is this severe, remote areas in conflict zones are likely to experience an even worse situation.
Since April 2023, fighting between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated Khartoum.
Only 14% of women in the capital can access safe childbirth care, according to the analysis, while only 43% of the city’s health facilities are still operational. The majority of facilities do not have any necessary antibiotics, with 70% of them claiming to do so.
In what he called “unimaginable hardship,” Birhanu Waka, director of Medical Teams International’s country, said the new data should guide efforts to restore health systems.
In March, the capital’s airport reopened for domestic flights in October after the military had taken control of Khartoum from the RSF.
After capturing the city of el-Fasher in late October, the RSF still has control over significant portions of western Sudan, including Darfur entirely.
Conditions in the disputed city of Babnusa in West Kordofan state, where fierce fighting broke out this week and where the RSF claimed to now be in charge, don’t look much worse.
More than 100 families, including pregnant women and children, have been taken into custody in dangerous conditions, according to a report released by the Sudanese doctors network on Thursday. According to the group, several detainees have experienced beatings.
On Thursday, the UN issued an urgent warning that Kordofan could experience yet another wave of widespread atrocities. In the wake of last month’s fall of el-Fasher, where early warnings were largely ignored, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said history was “repeating itself” in the area.
According to The Guardian, at least 60 000 people were killed in El-Fasher in just three weeks of the city’s fall to the RSF, according to a recent report from British lawmakers. 150 000 people still need to be found.
The city is still a ghost town, according to satellite imagery shared by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which has been tracking the conflict.
UN figures show that there are nearly 12 million displaced people in Sudan’s war, with an estimated death toll of more than 100,000. Sudanese people are currently suffering from severe hunger, more than 24 million of them.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio referred to Trump as the “only leader in the world capable of resolving the Sudan crisis,” while President Donald Trump stated that his administration would lead efforts to end the conflict.
Source: Aljazeera
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