Urgent appeal for humanitarian aid as displacement crisis worsens
Refugee women from West Darfur wait for food in a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, on the border with Sudan. Photograph: ShutterstockSenior aid officials have been holding weeks of briefings, as they appeal for more attention and funding for what is widely being called a “forgotten” war.
“It is clear that the people of Sudan can no longer wait,” said Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro, the secretary general for CARE International, in an online press conference last week. “This is a crisis within a crisis and the current war, which started a year ago, must be understood in that context of years of protracted conflict, economic hardship, suspensions of life-saving funding and climate shocks as well.
Between May and September, she said, 7 million people are likely to face catastrophic levels of hunger, though that number could rise to 18 million.
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