Sudan a war against civilians: Doctors Without Borders

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Sudan a war against civilians: Doctors Without Borders

The aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has expressed alarm at the extent of hunger and malnutrition in large areas of war-torn Sudan, particularly in the Darfur region.

Examinations of 30,000 children in the SamSam ******** camp in North Darfur and in Nyala in South Darfur revealed acute malnutrition in almost a third of them, MSF emergency aid coordinator Claire San Filippo said in Nairobi.

The World Health Organization (WHO) sets the threshold for emergencies at 15 per cent, half as many as in the north-eastern ******** country today.

“At this stage, we are not talking about an emergency: We are talking about a nightmare,” said San Filippo.

Regarding the around 11 million refugees and displaced people, indiscriminate ******** of civilian residential areas, destruction of health-care facilities and prevention of the delivery of humanitarian aid in Sudan’s power struggle, San Filippo spoke of a “war against the civilian population.”

De facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo have been fighting for control of Sudan since April 2023. Fighting has recently intensified, particularly in the capital Khartoum.

Sarah Easter, emergency aid spokeswoman in Germany for the international aid organisation CARE, also spoke of an escalation of the ******** crisis in eastern Chad, where 600,000 people, mainly from Darfur, have already sought refuge.

In the week she recently spent there, around 20,000 people had arrived from the neighbouring country, Easter told dpa.

Of the malnourished children being treated in the organization’s clinics, more than half are in the “red zone,” that is acutely malnourished, she said.

There is also an increasing shortage of food in the region and prices are rising rapidly, according to Easter.

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