Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 20th Feb. World food Programme on Monday has warned that 25 million people are facing hunger and malnutrition as the war in Sudan continued sends shockwaves around the region, in a press release issued in New York.
According to the UN agencies thousands of families are displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week while fighting between Government forces and the powerful RSF militia, which erupted last April, continues.
WFP Regional Director Michael Dunford said the crisis impacting Sudan, South Sudan and Chad has created “the world’s largest displacement crisis”.
He added that the mostly women and children crossing the border have no resources of their own.
The agency said there are 18 million food insecure people within the country, and 3.8 million Sudanese children under five are malnourished.
Most are caught in areas of active fighting where WFP and other aid agencies are trying to maintain consistent access.
