UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response Plan helps the UN, aid groups and the Sudanese government decide where and how much to fund various aid projects. According to this Dabanga article, conflict and food insecurity remain immense problems in Sudan (the World Food Programme plans to help 3.7 million across Sudan in 2015 via food aid and other...
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USAID donates food worth $135 Million to the World Food Program in Sudan
Sorghum, lentils and cooking oil from USAID is intended to help the WFP serve 1.8 million people in Darfur during the lean season. It will help over a half million Darfuri school children and about 262,000 more schoolkids in eastern and central Sudan. Dabanga reports that the United States has donated $626 million to the...
UNICEF: Sudan one of “the worst children’s emergencies in the world.”
In January and February of this year, UNICEF was only able to help 18,000 children with severe acute malnutrition, out of about 1.8 million children estimated to have this condition. Measles is now officially an epidemic in thirteen of Sudan’s eighteen states, with 1,120 cases confirmed nationwide. The agency reacted to the problem by preparing...