Famine is ravaging Sudan, but the world can’t get food aid to millions of starving people
Robaika Peter, 25, holds her severely malnourished child at the paediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, South Kordofan, Sudan June 25, 2024. Reuters
More than half the people in this nation of 50 million are suffering from severe hunger. Hundreds are estimated to be dying from starvation and hunger-related disease each day.
But life-saving international aid – cooking oil, salt, grain, lentils and more – is unable to reach millions of people who desperately need it. Among them is Raous Fleg, a 39-year-old mother of nine. She lives in a sprawling displaced persons camp in Boram county, in the state of South Kordofan, sheltering from fighting sparked by the civil war between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary called the Rapid Support Forces.
