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Only 23 per cent of the US$4.6-billion global humanitarian response plan for Sudan has been funded, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Houda Ali Mohammed, 32, a displaced Sudanese mother of four, prepares food at a camp shelter amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, July 30.
to the brink of irreversible harm as support is scaled back and malnutrition cases persist across the country, the U.N. children’s agency said on Tuesday. UNHCR and other UN agencies face one of the worst funding crises in decades, compounded by U.S. and other donor states’ decisions to “Children have limited access to safe water, food, health care. Malnutrition is rife, and many good children are reduced to just skin, bones,” said Sheldon Yett, UNICEF’s Representative in Sudan, speaking via video link from Port Sudan. Sudan’s conflict between the army and rival Rapid Support Forces has displaced millions and split the country into rival zones of control with the RSF still deeply embedded in western Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of people under siege in the Sudanese army's last holdout in the western Darfur region are running out of food and coming under constant artillery and drone barrages, while those who flee risk cholera and violent attacks.Several areas to the south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum are at risk of famine, the World Food Programme said in July. Children were being cut off from life-saving services due to funding cuts, while the scale of need is staggering, UNICEF said. “With recent funding cuts, many of our partners in Khartoum and elsewhere have been forced to scale back . . . We are being stretched to the limit across Sudan, with children dying of hunger,” Yett said.Only 23 per cent of the US$4.6-billion global humanitarian response plan for Sudan has been funded, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Access to areas in need also continues to be a challenge, with some roads rendered inaccessible due to the rainy season, hampering aid delivery efforts, UNICEF said. Other areas continue to be under siege, such as Al-Fashir. “It has been one year since famine was confirmed in ZamZam camp and no food has reached this area. Al-Fashir remains under siege. We need that access now,” said Jens Laerke of OCHA
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