UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from ‘severe’ malnutrition.

UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from ‘severe’ malnutrition.N early five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries.

In a note to the UN Security Council on Friday, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being driven by the impact of the conflict on agricultural production, damage to major infrastructure and livelihoods, disruptions to trade, severe price hikes, impediments to humanitarian access and massive displacement.

  • maynarkh
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    3 months ago

    Is this the result of the war on Ukraine, and the agricultural production destroyed by Russia? There was news that this will happen if the war does not end soon, or even if it does as a result of widespread destruction.

    • livus@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      3 months ago

      @maynarkh no, you’re thinking of the Horn of Africa, which has been in drought for years and had bought grain from Ukraine that it then couldn’t access.

      The Sudan crisis right now is mostly civil war, which has decimated agricultural production and cost millions of jobs:

      Tens of thousands of people have been killed since war broke out last April between the General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan-led Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo.

      Some 8.3 million people have been displaced from the country, many forced into neighbouring Chad and South Sudan.

      Millions in need of aid cannot access it as the warring factions “deliberately” deny access to supplies, the UN has warned earlier and said this could amount to a war crime.

      • maynarkh
        3·
        3 months ago

        Wrong crisis then. What a world.

        To be honest, when people say “we could feed the world, we just need to do logistics better”, it seems a lot of it is power-hungry assholes fucking logistics up, not that we couldn’t build it.

        • livus@kbin.socialOP
          3·
          3 months ago

          @maynarkh yeah I think it’s not logistics so much as geopolitical inequalities.

          Some populations are much more vulnerable to powwr-hungry assholes than others. Sudan’s current conflict isn’t being funded by the Sudanese.

          • maynarkh
            3·
            3 months ago

            I guess that’s what I’m saying. When people say the logistics isn’t there, they say it as if those unfortunate people wouldn’t have the money or something to build it. They don’t mention that the world’s glorious leaders love kicking the people who are down the most.

            • livus@kbin.socialOP
              2·
              3 months ago

              Yeah I agree with you.

              I hate it when I see things like, Westerners earnestly collecting funding to “build a well for a village in Africa”.

              People always knew know how to build wells and situate villages near water. That’s really not the problem. Put that do-good energy into stopping Nestle from stealing all the aquifer water or stopping Exxon from polluting it or supporting political candidates who will reign in these companies’ rapacious behaviour.