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Armed Conflict Continues UN Official: About Half of Sudan’s Population Needs Humanitarian Aid
Since the outbreak of this round of armed conflict in Sudan on April 15, it has lasted for more than three months. People under the flames of war are facing food shortages, water and electricity cutoffs, lack of medical care and other difficulties, and the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.
On July 23, local time, a reporter from the headquarter interviewed an official of the UN World Food Program’s Sudan program. He said that about half of Sudan’s population currently needs humanitarian assistance.
The armed conflict in Sudan has caused serious damage to local infrastructure. In many war-torn areas, water, electricity, and gas supplies have been interrupted, food, and medicines are in serious shortage. Most people have lost their jobs and sources of income. Many families can barely survive on one meal a day. According to UN statistics, 24.7 million people in Sudan, including 13 million children, are in need of humanitarian assistance, accounting for about half of the total population of Sudan.
Mohammad Jamal, UN World Food Program Sudan Program Officer:The current humanitarian situation in Sudan is dire, with more than 19 million people food insecure, and the situation will worsen if the conflict persists. WFP is deeply concerned about the situation on the ground, especially in the western Darfur region, where our humanitarian aid is unable to reach people in need.
United Nations officials have repeatedly expressed concern over the large-scale violence and casualties in Darfur in recent days, noting that the conflict has tended to target specific ethnic groups. At present, about 230,000 people in the region have fled abroad, most of them into neighboring Chad.
The World Food Program stated that at present, both parties to the conflict in Sudan have not provided sufficient security for humanitarian aid personnel, and multiple material storage warehouses of the World Food Program in Sudan have also been robbed, which has caused great difficulties for humanitarian aid operations.
Mohammad Jamal, UN World Food Program Sudan Program Officer:Ongoing conflicts have severely hampered humanitarian relief efforts, especially in the capital, Khartoum, and in the western Darfur region. We call on all parties to the conflict to provide safe passage and facilitate humanitarian operations so that we can deliver aid to those most in need.
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2023-07-24 02:04:00
