Conflict, below average farming production and poor pastureland conditions are among the causes of this food shortage (1). And as anyone who follows Sudan in the news knows, prices for food and cooking supplies have gone up enough to hurt households nationwide (2). So over the next six months or so, even if they receive food aid, people in the...
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UNOCHA weekly bulletin: Majority of Sudan’s most food insecure people are in the Jebel Mara area of Darfur
That is to say, the majority of Sudanese who are in situations in which they either do without food and suffer abnormally high malnutrition rates or can meet minimum food needs only by an increasing number of sacrifices that will put them at risk of going without food later. This is the Crisis level food insecurity (level...
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...