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Aid freezes and withdrawals leave Sudan’s needy battling famine alone | Sudan war News

Sudan faces an increasing humanitarian crisis, with relief organizations with vital humanitarian aid.

In the past few days, the freezing of humanitarian aid to the country has closed up to up to up to up to up 80 percent of emergency food kitchens in SudanWhile the dramatic reduction of the presence of non -border medical organizational organizers is known for its first French letters Doctors Without Borders OrganizationIt has led to some of the worst parts of the country that does not have an emergency medical cover with increased levels of violence.

The Sudan war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the semi -military rapid support forces (RSF) was continuing Since April 2023. Over the course of the war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and many were more wounded and an estimated 12 million people explained.

Famine, according to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), has already acquired more than 10 regions, where 17 other regions were reported on the brink of famine.

However, despite the rapid deteriorating humanitarian situation, it seems that Likop is not in the fighting, as the Sudanese army is currently advancing in the capital Khartoum, and RSF announces the formation of a competitive government.

Freezing the American Agency for International Development

US President Donald Trump has ordered the status of A. Freezing for 90 days at US International Development Agency payments Therefore, it came at a time of the tremendous instability of Sudan, as its facilities were the lifestyle of the needy millions.

The British Broadcasting Corporation said that 1,100 joint restaurants were closed as a result of the suspension of US foreign aid, and a closed kitchens volunteer said that people had resorted to “volunteer doors”, desperate to help.

In response to the impact of its decision, the US State Department claimed that it had issued a waiver of “saving life” programs for humanitarian assistance and assistance. However, these concessions do not seem to have translated into the resumption of humanitarian assistance to Sudan and many other countries, as Reuters news agency reported on Friday that only $ 100 million of exemptions for the US International Development Agency programs were approved, compared to approximately $ 40 billion in the agency. Which has already been spent on programs annually.

In fact, Reuters reported that most $ 5 in external aid issued under concessions were arms sales, military assistance, and drug control smuggling, according to a review of the list of exemptions.

The British program program said that it received 13 exemptions from grants related to Sudan, but it is not clear about what will happen for future financing.

Hunger crisis

The British program program said that the Sudanese risks become “the largest hunger crisis in the world in modern history”, with the destruction of the brutal civil war, infrastructure, trade routes and supply chains throughout the country. The United Nations said that the famine, which was first confirmed in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur in August, has since spread with an estimated 24.6 million people currently facing acute hunger.

The situation in North Darfur is especially important as its largest debtor has been besieged for several months by RSF, which has escalated from its attacks in recent weeks, including by by Zamzam camp attacking Its itself, as it took nearly half a million people after being displaced by the fighting.

The fighting for MSF was forced to withdraw from Zamzam. “Stopping our project in the midst of a deteriorating catastrophe in Zamzam is a tragic decision,” Yahya said, if you were, the director of the Sudan State at MSF.

“The tremendous proximity of violence, the great difficulties in sending supplies, impossibility to send experienced employees to obtain adequate support, and uncertainty about roads outside the camp for our colleagues and civilians leave us only a choice.”

RSF government

Despite the humanitarian crisis, many of them Due to RSFThe group moved forward with a ceremony in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, which indicates its intention Establishing a competing Sudanese government.

the The new government is unexpected To receive widespread international recognition. However, with the loss of RSF elsewhere, it appears to be an attempt to keep controlling the western region of Darfur.

The government aligned the army refused to recognize its newly formed competition, as Foreign Minister Ali Youssef said on Sunday that it “will not accept any other country that realizes the so -called parallel government.”

In response to the news, and its ability to divide cement inside the country, the spokesperson with the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stressed the need for a united Sudan, and reported that the new government “will increase the country’s fragmentation and the dangers in making this crisis worse.”

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2025-02-25 19:11:00

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