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Severed Lifelines: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid in Sudan

September 10, 2024

The people of Sudan are living a nightmare. For over 500 days, the ravages of war have torn communities apart and left thousands of civilians starving, sick, injured, and killed. The ongoing war that began on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has trapped civilians in the crossfire. Warring parties have deliberately targeted civilians, perpetrating atrocities with impunity.

The war is fueling one of the worst displacement crises in the world. The United Nations (UN) International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that nearly 8 million people have been internally displaced in Sudan since the war erupted, bringing the total of those displaced in the country to over 10 million people. Over 2 million others crossed borders seeking safety. Sudan also hosted over 920,000 refugees— primarily from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan—who sought refuge there before the war began and whose safety has once again been threatened by hostilities.

The country is now the largest child displacement crisis in the world, with five million children displaced and an increasing number forced to flee unaccompanied or separated from their families. Although conflict is a main driver of displacement in Sudan, intense flooding has worsened conditions and displaced thousands—many for the second or third time. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated that over 172,000 people had been displaced by flooding and heavy rains across 14 states in Sudan.

But as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises rages on, lifelines have been intentionally severed, and millions of people in Sudan are trapped without the humanitarian assistance they need to survive.

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