Aid workers warn over Sudan crisis: “time is of the essence”

“There are many tragic and preventable deaths from hunger and the situation is very difficult”, he told The Lancet via telephone from Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state and his home town. Sudan faces “the worst levels of acute food insecurity” ever recorded in the country and 25·6 million people—over half the population—face food crisis across 14 areas including Nyala, said analysis by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) group of UN and other experts released on June 27. Health workers have also come under sustained attack by armed forces, who have also targeted patients, health facilities, transport, supplies, and warehouses, says WHO. “Since April, 2023, WHO has verified 73 attacks on health care causing 53 deaths. The danger to health workers led Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to announce on July 10 that it had evacuated its team from the Turkish Hospital in an RSF-controlled part of the capital, Khartoum.