SUDAN WARRING PARTIES DENYING AID ACCESS TO MILLIONS

With half of war-torn Sudan’s citizens suffering from acute hunger, both sides have been weaponising humanitarian aid - by denying access.

According to the UN, the proxy war has displaced a population that’s ‘greater than the entire population of Switzerland,' uprooting 12.5-million people. In December 2024, the International Rescue Committee reported that the war had created 'the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.'

The power struggle between allies-turned-foes started on 15 April 2023. Experts say the exact death toll is hard to determine but is largely underestimated. In May 2024, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello said that, after a year of fighting, as many as 150,000 had been k*lled.

According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group, by November 2024, over 61,000 people had been k*lled in the capital Khartoum alone. With the battle for the city intensifying (the army recently recaptured the presidential palace and has reportedly just taken back the airport), that number is likely to have jumped significantly.

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