The freezing of American humanitarian assistance forced nearly 80 % of the emergency kitchens that were created to help people who have left the civil war of Sudan, the British Broadcasting Corporation learned.

Aid volunteers said that the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive order stops the contributions of the United States Government Development Organization (the USA International Development) for a period of 90 days that more than 1,100 joint restaurants have been closed.

It is estimated that nearly two million people are struggling to stay.

The conflict between the army and the semi -military rapid support forces has killed tens of thousands of people, forced millions of their homes and left many famine they faced since they erupted in April 2023.

Kitchens are running groups known as the emergency response rooms, a popular network of activists who have been on the front lines to respond to crises in their neighborhoods.

“People knock on the doors of the volunteers,” says Dua Tariq, an emergency room organizer. “People scream from hunger in the streets.”

The Trump administration suddenly suspended all US aid last month to determine whether it “serves American interests”, and moved to start dismantling the United States Agency for International Development.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an exemption for food aid in emergency situations, but Sudanese groups and others say that there is great confusion and uncertainty about what this means in practice.

The regular channels to address the waiver through the United States Agency for International Development are no longer present, and it is not clear whether the monetary assistance-on which the joint kitchens-will be restored, or only in-kind goods. According to some estimates, the United States Agency for International Development provided 70-80 % of the total financing for these flexible cash programs.

The closure of the majority of emergency kitchens in Sudan is seen as a major setback by organizations working to address the largest hunger crisis in the world, with the reporting of famine conditions in at least five locations.

The group nutrition centers network in the early stages of the country’s civil war has relied on the donations of society and expatriates, but later became a pivotal point of financing from international agencies that are fighting to reach conflict areas, including the United States Agency for International Development.

Andrea Tercy, a former USA official, says a “huge setback”, a former US Agency for International Development Agency, who established a fund, the Sudanese mutual aid alliance, for special donations of emergency rooms.

The former US President of the International Development Agency, Samantha Power, adopted the idea of ​​working with local groups rather than relying only on traditional channels such as the United Nations.

Money began to flow through international relief organizations that obtained our grants, but it was a channel of direct financing in business.

“She was a pioneer,” says Ms. Trissy. “It was the only time that the US Agency for International Development has ever done with the white helmets (the humanitarian group) in Syria.”

For lady Tariq, the US financing reduction made impossible to buy stocks for more than 25 kitchen in the six neighborhoods in the capital, Kartoum, and it helps in the service. The BBC has told them that they left them not ready to get angry with the advancement of the army in the area, which was held by RSF since the outbreak of the conflict.

There was widespread looting of the markets as RSF began to withdraw and the army stressed its share.

She said that most kitchens were closed. Some are trying to get food on local fishermen and farmers, but soon “we expect to see many people starved.”

Here and in the rest of the country, the TRASY MUTUAL AID SUDAN Alliance Fund will do his best to connect the gap left by the United States Agency for International Development.

“I think we can be the beach [the emergency kitchens]She said, “But the reality is that [private donations] They will have to do more now, because even if she resumes humanitarian assistance, this will never be what it was. “

“These volunteers were defying us to work differently, and we were responding,” says one of the members of a partner organization at the United States Agency for International Development.

They are “exhausted, shocking, and wzing in financing” and “we were arguing to help them.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not answer specific questions about the concessions on Sudan, saying that the information was shared directly with the groups whose applications succeeded.

In response to the British Broadcasting Corporation, she said: “The aid review process is not related to the end of external aid, but rather a restructuring to ensure that it makes the United States safer, stronger and more prosperous.”

The World Food Program (WFP) says it has received exemptions for the 13th Sudanese grants with the United States Agency for International Development, but there is no certainty about what comes after that for future financing. In any case, it was under negotiation – now the talks would occur in changing conditions.

In 2024, the United States was the largest single donor to Sudan, whether in direct donations or to contributions to the Sudanese -United Nations humanitarian response plan.

The BBC’s senior UN officials told that the impact of the transformation of Washington’s policy would feel outside the borders of Sudan, as more than two million civilians are now refugees in neighboring countries.

“I saw people who fled the conflict, but not hunger,” said Rania Dagash, Executive Director of Partnerships and Innovation in the cooperative program, after visiting the camps in Renk and Malakal, southern Sudan, earlier this month.

The influx of refugees has only extended meager resources.

“We have to rationalize, rationalize and rationalize,” says Mamadou Diane Baldi, Director of the United Nations Regional Office at the United Nations.

It was also to visit the refugee camps in Chad and Egypt when he spoke to the BBC. “We are tense. It’s very difficult.”

They both return to the local communities to welcome the cheerlers who are looking for a shelter and their participation with them. In the case of South Sudan, “It is an additional million people who came to a country where 60 % of the population of hunger in emergency situations,” says Dagesh.

Most families now reach a meal per day, with children and elderly priority.

She said: “But you see them wearing and thinning in front of you – children with malnutrition. You see mothers trying to breastfeed, and there is nothing that comes out of their chest.”

Most of the refugees are women, children and some elderly.

They say that most of the physical men either were killed or simply disappeared. Therefore, they escaped to save themselves and children. They have nothing.

In the face of hunger in the camps, some in South Sudan tried to sell firewood. But Mrs. Dajish says she is harassing, violence and rape.

Many refugees I met from the agricultural areas in Sudan have come. The war disrupted their lives and ways to live.

They wanted to see peace, peace was restored so that they could return home, but the fighting was ready for nearly two years without end on the horizon.

With the deterioration of the hunger situation inside Sudan in the absence of a ceasefire, the closure of kitchens that provide emergency meals will only increase the numbers that run across the border.

However, relief agencies that will usually help are tense.

The Commission says through it that a rationalization has been forced “to levels in which our interventions are completely limited – they are at the minimum.”

The agency does not help to be already disabled.

Last year, UNHCR’s call for donor contributions resulted in only 30 % of the expected amount, forcing their teams to reduce “everything”, including the number of meals and the amount of water refugee it could receive.

The United States was the UNHCR’s main United Kingdom and announced last month to freeze aid, and it seems that the subsequent concession has given matters to forget.

“We are still residing, and we are working with the partners, to see the impact of this on our needs,” Mr. Baldi told the BBC.

In the face of impossible options, some refugees already resort to resorting to the third countries, including in the Gulf, Europe and beyond. Baldi says that some people start “very dangerous trips.”