United Nations warns 800 000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger'.
Some 800 000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur,” top United Nations officials warned the Security Council on Friday.and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces , creating the world’s largest displacement crisis.
“Fighting in El Fasher could unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur,” DiCarlo said, echoing a warning by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday. The UN has said nearly 25 million people, half of Sudan’s population, need aid and some 8 million have fled their homes. “The violence poses an extreme and immediate danger to the 800,000 civilians who reside in El Fasher,” said the UN aid operations director, Edem Wosornu.
“And it risks triggering further violence in other parts of Darfur – where more than 9 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance,” she said. A United Nations-backed global authority on food security said late last month that immediate action is needed to “prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan.”
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