Sudan in danger of becoming a failed state, Jan Egeland warns

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Sudan in danger of becoming a ******* state, Jan Egeland warns

War-stricken Sudan is in danger of becoming another ******* state because civil society is disintegrating amid a proliferation of armed groups, the head of a leading international aid agency has told the BBC.

As well as the two main warring parties in Sudan – the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – there are many smaller “******* armies” looting and going “berserk” on civilians, Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian ******** Council (NRC), said.

“The parties are tearing down their own houses, they are massacring their own people,” he said.

For nineteen months, there has been a brutal power struggle between the army and the RSF, that has forced over 10 million people to flee their homes and pushed the country to the brink of starvation.

“All that I saw confirms that this is indeed the biggest humanitarian emergency on our watch, the biggest hunger crisis, the biggest displacement crisis,” Mr Egeland said, following a trip to Sudan.

In September, the World Health Organization (WHO) said starvation in Sudan “is almost everywhere”.

Soup kitchens have been forced to close due to being underfunded. Egeland said the lack of humanitarian response meant remaining sources of aid are simply “delaying deaths instead of preventing them.”

“Most of Sudan is starving, it’s starving,” he said, adding that starvation has been used as a method of warfare.

Some food security specialists ***** that as many as 2.5 million people could **** from hunger by the end of this year.

Mr Egeland warned that the world is “failing Sudan completely” by not doing enough.

He told the BBC if Europe wanted to avoid a ******** crisis, it needed to invest in “aid, protection and peace in this corner of the world”.

“It’s an underfunded operation, even though it’s the world’s biggest emergency,” he said.

Thousands of people have been ******* since a civil war broke out. Rights groups have also expressed fears that there may be ******* cleansing and

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Despite this, peace talks between the RSF and the army have been fruitless.

“The war will stop when these warlords feel they have more to lose by continuing fighting, than by doing the sensible thing” Egeland said.

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