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People eating grass & peanut shells in Darfur UN says as hunger crisis engulfed Sudan

Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation.

People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance doesn’t reach them soon, we risk witnessing widespread starvation and death in Darfur and across other conflict-affected areas in Sudan,” Michael Dunford added.

Sudan has been gripped by civil war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It quickly descended into a brutal conflict characterized by reports of sexual and genocidal violence and civilian casualties, triggering an exodus of refugees.

On Thursday, two International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) drivers were killed by gunmen in South Darfur, in an attack that left three other staff members injured, according to the humanitarian organization.

The ICRC team was attacked en route to assess the crisis among communities affected by armed violence in the region, the organization said.

The latest surge in violence comes as the RSF encircles North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher.

In the city and its surrounding localities, there have been “increasing arbitrary killings,” systematic “burning of entire villages” and “escalating air bombardments,” the UN deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Toby Hayward, said on Thursday.

Hayward added that El Fasher is the only city in Darfur that has not been captured by the RSF and hosts thousands of people who have been displaced by the war. At least 500,000 of those sheltering in the city have been displaced from violence elsewhere in Sudan, according to the UN’s children’s agency (UNICEF).

More than 36,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in El Fasher in recent weeks, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.

At least 43 people have been killed in and around the city since the escalation of fighting a little over two weeks ago, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Thursday.


“Recent attacks on more than a dozen villages in western El Fasher have resulted in horrific reports of violence, including sexual violence, children injured and killed, homes set on fire, and destruction of critical civilian supplies and infrastructure,” Russell detailed.

Meanwhile, deliveries of food assistance in Darfur “have been intermittent due to fighting and endless bureaucratic hurdles” and at least 1.7 million people within the region are experiencing emergency levels of hunger, according to the World Food Programme.


The latest escalation of violence around El Fasher has halted aid convoys coming from Chad’s Tine border crossing – a recently opened humanitarian corridor that passes through North Darfur’s capital,” the WFP added. Restrictions imposed by authorities in the coastal town of Port Sudan have hindered aid deliveries, the WFP said, preventing the transportation of relief via Adré, a town in neighboring Chad.

More than 8.7 million people, including 4.6 million children, have been displaced by the war in Sudan and 24.8 million need assistance, according to OCHA.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/africa/people-eating-grass-sudan-hunger/index.html

The situation in Sudan is really heartbreaking


See the what two insane generals have plunged Sudan into.


African union isn't doing much to help the people of Sudan

And why are Nigerians not talking about this war as they do about other conflicts in Europe and Asia?

I've also noticed that they hardly comment on such threads, but they will accuse me of not posting them

Gains of war

God1000:
The situation in Sudan is really heartbreaking

..

Heart breaking but nobody cares. Millions are dead and displaced but no one cares.
No UN emergency meeting is called
Nobody is on the streets of London
Nobody is on the streets of melbourne
Nobody is on the streets of South Africa
Nobody is on the streets of Berlin
Nobody is rioting and protesting in the universities in US, UK, Europe or wherever.
Nobody is shouting innocent civilians.

Because it has nothing with GOD ALMIGHTY Chosen nation and people, the Jews..
NO JEWS! NO NEWS!
This is Satanic Hypocrisy From the pit of Hell that your likes have donated yourselves to the devil to use. Emergency humanitarians

ONE Sure thing is ISRAEL is GOD'S Signet on the Face of the Earth.
IT is through ISRAEL that GOD deals with the Earth.
You Bless ISRAEL, You are Blessed.
You Curse ISRAEL, You are Cursed.
Choose wisely were you stand.

Righteousness2:
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I've not seen any of your post condemning the violence in Sudan, it's always about Israel the savior

No protest. No marches for Sudan. No encampment on University campuses demanding an end to the war in Sudan.

But if it's Israel they will instantly remember that they are activists.

.. we nor dey see this one wey dey happen for our backyard.
Na far away Israel/Gaza and Russia/Ukraine dey full our news...


True true,some lives matter pass others..

The UN is one of the most useless and toothless Bulldog on earth Just like the AU , ECOWAS and the rest of them !
They won't take any action to stop all these nonsense 🤬

Islamabad

Islamist attacked Christians and animists state till it brought about South Sudan independence.
Those same blood thirsty mongers have imploded their Sudan territory. Army vs Paramilitary support forces. Blood thirsty monsters will consume themselves when they have no one to.
That's why kingdom of Saudi Arabia don't tolerate protest/support for Gaza on their territory, na jail term oOoOO. They regulate Islam tightly and no space for scholars and mullahs to give interpretations that bring about extremists

Sudan, a lesson therein...never ever create a legal parallel army that is just as strong as the real thing. IT ALWAYS ENDS IN TEARS.

Abeg help us leave them like that before you go and import your war to them

War favours no one...especially intrnal war ...the power drunk general will destroy South Sudan if international community refuse to stop in... most of the citizens will be regretting ever breaking away from North Sudan... just I wished Nigeria had our independence January this year...

God1000:
I've not seen any of your post condemning the violence in Sudan, it's always about Israel the savior

Righteousness2 na hypocrite for sure. he will never say anything about his own Africa

God1000:
CNN

People eating grass & peanut shells in Darfur UN says as hunger crisis engulfed Sudan



https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/africa/people-eating-grass-sudan-hunger/index.html

Oh my God!
This is really heartbreaking

WorkTheTalk:

When would the world stand up for Sudan? When would the pro-sudan protestors occupy schools and business premises? When would UN and ICC hold the people responsible for destructions in Sudan accountable?
I remember. No Jews, no news.

Truth!

israelmao:
Hunger is a wicked thing,I pray for immediate divine supply for the hungry.

Amen

Hahahaha shey Russia dy this country.... Why are they not helping to solve the issue..... Africa Una go see shege pro max make una dy deceive unselves

Hmm... this is serious. 25 million entering into other neighboring African countries spells doom for the continent.

nairalanda1:
Sudan, a lesson therein...never ever create a legal parallel army that is just as strong as the real thing. IT ALWAYS ENDS IN TEARS.

doesn't matter.US has many forces

May God help them.

They should eat poo sef, since they don't want to have sense.

Na now UN remember SUDAN? The genocide in Sudan is less to be worried about once it is not in GAZA.

Hunger is a wicked thing,I pray for immediate divine supply for the hungry.

flyinnizam:
doesn't matter.US has many forces

Not as strong and unifed as the official army, or armed forces.

There is a national guard which is similar to the army, but it is decentralised and mostly part time.

God1000:
More than 8.7 million people, including 4.6 million children, have been displaced by the war in Sudan and 24.8 million need assistance, according to OCHA.

When would the world stand up for Sudan? When would the pro-sudan protestors occupy schools and business premises? When would UN and ICC hold the people responsible for destructions in Sudan accountable?
I remember. No Jews, no news.

They will rush to down talk you for negative action.

Oh no!

An organization the US government has rendered useless is giving an assessment of Sudan.

Why was this useless UN created at all, if they are so clueless in solving the numerous wars going on globally.

Where are d world gaza protesters?is it because Sudanese are black Africanwhere is south Africa?why can't they file for genocide for darfur at ICC?

Toh

ToteJesus:
No protest. No marches for Sudan. No encampment on University campuses demanding an end to the war in Sudan.

But if it's Israel they will instantly remember that they are activists.

The world is filled with hypocrites and cowards. If Israel decides to be violent and belligerent like North Korea and Iraq, all the nonsense protest will stop. Imagine the racist Southafrican government suing Israel for war crimes.

I feel for them and I pray we Nigerians never get to this level before things change....

African leaders need to learn to do more for their people...
We can do this without western or foreign influence...

Not saying it's bad to get help from world powers but from experience, western aids won't come without a cost....

May God come through for us all... Africa needs deliverance from bad leaders

ToteJesus:
No protest. No marches for Sudan. No encampment on University campuses demanding an end to the war in Sudan.

But if it's Israel they will instantly remember that they are activists.

they are bunch of useless people.

That was how they were cooking for terrorists in Gaza, they called themselves world kitchen. Where is the terrorists world world kitchen now? We need them in sudan.