War and hunger threaten to “consume” all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, the UN warned Friday, decrying a dire lack of aid funding. “The war in Sudan is fuelling a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions,” said the United Nations’ humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths. Some places have already run out of food,” Griffiths’ statement said. ‘Massive’ scale-up neededIn addition to the funding shortfall, Laerke lamented massive “bureaucratic impediments”, leaving aid stuck in containers in Port Sudan and aid workers waiting weeks for visas. There are still around 2,000 border crossings into Chad each day, with the influx by far overwhelming the capacities of aid workers on the ground, it said.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 25, 2023 20:29 UTC