The world’s biggest hunger crisis looms in the controversial Sudan Super Tuesday – these are the five most important findings

The conflict between the military and paramilitaries in Sudan has caused the world’s largest displacement crisis.

According to the World Food Program (WFP), it now threatens to become the world’s worst hunger crisis. More than 25 million people are suffering from hunger in Sudan and in the neighboring states of South Sudan and Chad, to which they have fled. The WFP announced this on Wednesday.

“Twenty years ago, Darfur was the world’s worst hunger crisis and the global community came together to take action. But today, the people of Sudan have been forgotten,” warned WFP Director Cindy McCain. Currently, 90 percent of people in urgent need of food aid are in areas inaccessible to aid organizations. Millions of lives are in danger, McCain said.

According to the WFP, authorities have revoked permits for cross-border truck convoys. Deliveries from neighboring Chad to the neighboring Darfur region of Sudan should therefore have been halted. More than a million people have been depending on deliveries there for months.

The army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for almost eleven months in the Northeast African country with around 44 million inhabitants. The military and the RSF jointly seized power in a 2021 coup, but later fell out over power-sharing, resulting in a violent conflict on April 15, 2023.

According to UN figures, around eight million people have fled or been displaced within the country since the violence began – currently the largest number in conflict in the world. At least 14,600 people have been killed so far. Both sides are accused of serious crimes against human rights. (saw/sda/dpa)