Im Sudan fordert der Hunger immer mehr Opfer

Aus einem Bericht des Norwegian Refugee Councils:

“There is no escape from suffering. It has been 15 months of uninterrupted violence and spiralling humanitarian crisis,” says Mathilde Vu, NRC’s Advocacy Manager in Sudan. “When it’s not bullets, it’s hunger that kills.”

More than half the population in Sudan – 25.6 million people – are experiencing crisis levels of hunger, while thousands of refugees in neighbouring countries are struggling to feed their children.

“People are already dying of hunger. Our colleagues on the ground in Darfur report that pregnant women are losing their children due to malnutrition, and children are dying of hunger on a daily basis,” Vu continues.

Following 14 months of escalating conflict, Sudan has become the world’s largest hunger crisis. Over half of the country is currently experiencing severe food insecurity, meaning people don’t have reliable access to food and sometimes go more than a day without eating. This is expected to become much worse during the upcoming lean season. 

“In some regions people are struggling to eat one meal a day and the majority depend on begging, charity, and relief items where available. Some people are selling their roofing to buy food,” says Vu."

Quelle: https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2024/sudan-crisis-people-are-dying-of-hunger/