According to the appeal issued by the Norwegian and Danish Refugee Councils, and the international organizations “CARE”, “GOAL”, “PLAN”, “Relief”, “Save the Children” and “Solidarity”, the efforts made so far to reduce the violence and end the suffering of the Sudanese are not sufficient.
The humanitarian catastrophe has worsened significantly, with the war reaching 13 states Sudan The 18th.
The pace of conflict in Sudan has witnessed a significant increase in recent weeks, with violence reaching its highest level since the outbreak of fighting in mid-April 2023.
This comes in parallel with the alarming spread of infectious diseases and high rates of malnutrition among children.
While 26 million people in the country are besieged by hunger, about 34 percent of children suffer malnutrition Or severe malnutrition.
As the war continues, the suffering of the stranded people increases, living under the sounds of bullets and daily bombing, and facing the cruelty of the disease with empty stomachs.
The appeal particularly highlights the tragedy of children, amid the absence of any signs of an end to the war.
Aerial and ground bombardments are becoming increasingly brutal, and the population’s ability to access food, clean water, medicines and health care is diminishing.
According to the eight organizations, cities like El Fasher have become “hell on earth for thousands of women, children, and other vulnerable people.”
Last month witnessed a further escalation of hostilities, including Aerial bombardmentendangering the lives of 2.8 million people in and around El Fasher and in North Darfur.
Workers in humanitarian organizations working on the ground tell tragic stories about the conditions of children, noting that many of them die under aerial bombardment or from bullet fragments, while the survivors are exposed to the risk of death from starvation or disease.
An employee at a child protection organization said: “The children are worried and always ask me when the war will end.”
Another adds: “Children tell us they want to stop this conflict, because they do not want more of their peers to die.”
Save the Children said the death rates due to the outbreak Cholera In Sudan, it has risen to three times the global average, exposing thousands of children to the risk of disease as the number of infections continues to rise, as the conflict impedes access to treatment with more than 80 percent of hospitals out of service.
Humanitarian organizations face a double crisis, as they operate under extremely complex security conditions and a severe shortage of funding required for the humanitarian response, as the international community has so far provided only $1.3 billion, less than half the amount requested by the United Nations, which amounts to $2.7 billion.
