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SUDAN'S RAGING CIVIL WAR COULD SEE 2 MILLION STARVE TO DEATH. AID AGENCY SAYS
"THE WORLD IS NOT WATCHING"

By Sarah Carter

June 25, 2024 / 11:40 AM EDT / CBS News

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Millions facing starvation in Sudan: UNHCR

Millions facing starvation in Sudan nearly a year after civil war broke out,
U.N. says 03:42

Johannesburg - An aid agency issued a "crisis alert" Tuesday over war-torn
Sudan, calling out the international community for its failure to address the
civil war that has raged there for over a year. 

The International Rescue Committee warned that a risk of famine is looming and
said the lack of any political solution has left Sudan on the brink of a
"catastrophe of historic scale."

"The world is not watching us, we are heading for famine, massive loss of life,
and a failed state," the IRC's country director for Sudan, Eatizaz Yousif, told
CBS News.



Yousif warned that the world's worst displacement crisis was quickly becoming
the world's worst hunger crisis – and that the situation was worsening.

Two million people could die of hunger-related causes if the situation does not
improve and no additional humanitarian aid gets into the country, according to
several humanitarian groups CBS News spoke to. IRC said it is too late to avert
a major loss of life, but warned the country is on the brink of widespread
famine, with some areas already in a famine-like situation. 



More than 222,000 children will die in the next few months if nothing changes,
experts estimate.

Sudanese children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in
Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024.  Patricia
Simon/AP

Over 10 million people have fled their homes and remain displaced inside the
country. At least 2 million more have fled to refugee camps in neighboring
nations.

In most parts of Sudan, no hospitals, banks or schools are functioning, aid
agencies say. 

"We currently have 7 million kids in malnutrition, with all schools closed and
more than 70% of hospitals closed," Yousif told CBS News, adding that his
biggest overriding concern "is the collapse of the country into civil war and
statelessness."



The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization and its World Food Program, along
with other agencies, are working to update their data, but say 3 million people
in Sudan are living at the highest level of food insecurity, which indicates
famine conditions, while another 18 million people are in need of emergency food
assistance. 

The U.N. has stopped short of declaring a famine in Sudan as aid agencies have
struggled to collect the necessary data to show the catastrophe meets the
requirements for such a formal declaration. A famine declaration requires
evidence that certain prescribed criteria on mortality rates, insecurity and
other metrics have been met. It doesn't trigger any legal response, but can
galvanize will in the international community to rush help to those in need.

Sudan's army – which has been at war with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary
faction since April 2023 – has prevented a lot of the data collection that would
be required for a famine declaration, charity workers in the country have told
CBS News. 

The worst-hit part of the country is the Darfur region, where international aid
organizations have leveled allegations of genocide amid intense shelling in the
city of El Fasher, which was once home to 3 million people. 

Residents in the region, now largely under RSF control, report hearing bombs
throughout the day and night. The three hospitals in El Fasher, which has not
fallen to RSF forces, have stopped functioning, and the city has little water. 

If RSF seizes El Fasher, the paramilitary group will control almost a third of
Sudan, including its western borders with Libya, Chad, the Central African
Republic and South Sudan, as well as Khartoum.

The military has started encouraging young men to take up arms to fight
alongside the regular army, with rumors suggesting the RSF is using forced
conscription in the Darfur region to bolster its numbers. 



No reliable death toll in the conflict is available, but it is widely thought
that tens of thousands of people have been killed. Electricity, health and
telecommunications infrastructure has largely been destroyed, and the government
has been forced to move out of the capital Khartoum to the coastal city of Port
Sudan.

The U.N. Security Council voted earlier this month to demand an immediate
cease-fire in Darfur.

"This council has sent a strong signal to the parties to this conflict today,
that this brutal and unjust conflict needs to end," Britain's U.N. ambassador
Barbara Woodward said after the vote.

Aid workers who have spoken to CBS News say nothing has changed on the ground
since that vote. And the U.N. has received only about 16% of the $2.6 billion it
says is urgently needed to assist the Sudanese people.

There was hope over the last few weeks that pressure from the U.S. and other
countries could help usher in a peace deal, but all lines seem to have gone
quiet in spite of the regional and global security implications, Yousif said.

U.S. special envoy to Sudan Tom Perriello warned earlier this month that,
without a lasting peace deal, Sudan will continue to unravel, and could spiral
into a regional conflict with geopolitical implications.


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Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter is an award-winning CBS News producer based in Johannesburg, South
Africa. She has been with CBS News since 1997, following freelance work for
organizations including The New York Times, National Geographic, PBS Frontline
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