WFP reaches millions of desperate people, but ongoing conflict risks making the world's biggest displacement crisis also its biggest hunger crisis
WFP reaches millions of desperate people, but ongoing conflict risks making the world's biggest displacement crisis also its biggest hunger crisis
Ahmed is among millions whose lives have been upended by a conflict that reaches its one-year mark on Monday . Beyond killing and injuring thousands, fighting between rival armed groups has triggered the world's largest displacement crisis - with more than 8.6 million people seeking refuge inside and outside the country. The regional fallout of Sudan's war also risks triggering the world's biggest hunger crisis.
That includes the family of Abdulaziz, who scrapes a living selling tomatoes, eggplants and other produce on the outskirts of Port Sudan. Originally from Umm Ruwaba in south-central Sudan, he moved here seeking work before the war began. There are small breakthroughs, however. WFP aid convoys recently reached war-torn Darfur for the first time in months, carrying enough support for a quarter-million people. But we and other humanitarians are pushing for unfettered access at all times, to meet massive needs before it's too late.
Throughout a year of upheaval, Awadiya continued to support as many people as she could, organizing and cooking food in communal kitchens for others who fled. Now she's running a soup kitchen where people pool their foods.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later. "Our hope is for the war to stop, so we can go back home," Awadiya says."We don't want the war. It harmed us, particularly women."Sitting on a simple bed she shares with several other relatives, Ahmed's mother Fatimmah explains how her family of seven survived in Khartoum: by diluting and mixing any grain they had left into a malt juice. In March, they were finally able to escape to Port Sudan.
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