Document - Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA, on behalf of the Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief...
Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA, on behalf of the Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief CoordinatorIn resolution 2417 you asked the Secretary-General to report swiftly to you when the risk of conflict-induced famine and widespread food insecurity arose in armed conflict.
In Khartoum, Darfur, and Kordofan - which are home to 90 per cent of people facing emergency levels of acute food insecurity - there has been no respite from the fierce fighting for 340 days. And in December last year, hostilities moved into Sudan's breadbasket, Aj Jazirah State, which accounts for almost half of the country's wheat production.
Now, as the conflict rages on, Sudan is on course to become the world's worst hunger crisis. Already, 18 million people - more than one third of the country's population - are facing acute food insecurity. And with the World Health Organization estimating that more than 70 per cent of health facilities are not functional, children who are already malnourished are at even greater risk of dying from preventable diseases.
We do welcome that after revoking their agreement to the cross-border operation from Chad, the Sudanese authorities announced on 5 March alternative routes including temporary access via Tine crossing. The procedures for the use of this crossing are yet to be elaborated or put in place.
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