With little help from the international community, those in need are being fed by community-funded soup kitchens in war-torn Omdurman, the most populated city in Sudan. As one part of Sudan faces famine for the first time in seven years, the United States and other countries have urged the warring sides to grant humanitarian organizations unfettered access.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
The once-thriving market in Omdurman, the second-most populous city in Sudan, has been almost destroyed by the nearly 18 months of fighting. As fighting raged in the capital, Khartoum, on the other side of the Nile,VOA gained rare access to the city and met residents.Henry Wilkins reports.
Mohamed Issa Abushahab, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, addresses the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
The internaly displaced people in Al Fasher and North Darfur still struggle with hunger in the Sudanese Zamzam camps. It is only the tip of the iceberg, according to reports.
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
A record number of people have been internally displaced globally as a result of conflict; these people were forced to flee their homes but are still living in their own countries, frequently in refugee camps.
The fighting in the Northeast African nation of Sudan is still going on, but worldwide donors have promised more than $2.13 billion in humanitarian relief, and the UN said this week that a looming famine is about to break out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
One year has passed since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) began fighting in Sudan on April 15. According to international aid organizations the ongoing fighting has left the country in Northeast Africa on the verge of a humanitarian crisis, with millions of displaced children starving to death and others being pushed into child marriage or child soldiers.