“The Sudanese war has been brutal in terms of human rights violations, gender-based and sexual violence, and people really have nowhere to go. We are facing all kinds of problems, and the tools we have to deal with them are very limited in the current conflict. » alarmed the head of the UN emergency relief agency (OCHA) in Sudan.

Growing hunger in war-torn Sudan and limited tools to address the world’s largest displacement crisis are pressing concerns as famine looms, the head of the emergency relief agency said Tuesday (OCHA) in this besieged African country.

« We face three main problems – access, resources and attention – to address the most important problems, including the world’s largest displacement problem, » he said Justin Brady, the head of the UN emergency relief agency (OCHA) in Sudan.

According to Justin Brady, the year 2024 began with 4.9 million people in IPC [Integrated Food Security Phase Classification] Category 4, meaning they have exhausted all coping mechanisms. It is likely that a large percentage of them are in IPC Phase 5, which includes famine.

The head of OCHA in Sudan explains that aid workers cannot access many areas. National staff of some international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) remained on site and it is not possible to operate.

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