Sudan facing ‘the abyss’ unless war ends as mass starvation looms, UN warns
1 month ago

Sudan facing ‘the abyss’ unless war ends as mass starvation looms, UN warns

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Rights chief Turk warns of ‘explosion into chaos’ unless action is taken to end war as famine strikes deeper. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that famine had taken hold in five areas across the country, including Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur, where the UN’s World Food Programme and medical charity Doctors Without Borders were forced to suspend operations amid escalating violence earlier this week. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, Turk said Sudan was “looking into the abyss”, warning that famine could hit five more areas in the next three months, with a further 17 considered at risk in what he described as the “world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe”. ‘Endless cycle of violence’ The war, which broke out in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands and caused what Turk called the “biggest displacement crisis in the world”, with more than 12 million people forced from their homes to camps and other locations inside and outside Sudan’s borders. “Children in Sudan are caught in an endless cycle of violence, disease and hunger, with devastating impact,” said Mohamed Abdiladif, Save the Children’s country director for Sudan.

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