Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 25th Oct. Top humanitarian official in Sudan Clementine Nkweta-Salami on Tuesday said that over 5.6 million people have fled their homes and 25 million need aid to survive in what has become “one of the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
Clementine Nkweta-Salami stressed that “the longer this fighting continues, the more devastating its impact”.
Some 4.2 million women and girls are at risk of gender-based violence, Ms. Nkweta-Salami said, and one in every three children has no access to school.
She underscored that since the start of the crisis, the UN and its partners have delivered food to three million people in 17 of Sudan’s 18 states, provided safe drinking water to over two million people and health supplies to three million women and children.
They have “received and recorded reports of human rights violations and abuses”, she said.
Ms. Nkweta-Salami urged them to commit to “a durable cessation of hostilities, abide by their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law to protect civilians, and enable safe humanitarian access to those in need” in a call to Sudan’s rival militaries to “stop the fighting.”
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