The biggest humanitarian crisis in the world today

As the war in Sudan has entered the third year, the country today faces the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. However, the situation receives little attention worldwide. After returning from Chad, where he met with the Sudanese refugees, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, commented: “Sudan is bleeding, people suffer for a long time. Citizens are bombarded daily, millions are trapped between conflicts, neglect and flight dilemma. Normal violations of humanitarian law.” added: “The Sudan are besieged on all sides – war, widespread abuses, indignation, hunger and other difficulties and are facing indifference from the outside world, which for the last two years has shown little interest in bringing peace to Sudan or relief from their neighbors.”

For the past two years they have brought unthinkable pain and pain to people in Sudan. The conflict has forced 12.4 million people to leave their homes and seek safety either elsewhere in Sudan or beyond the border, including more than half of whom are children (including almost a third under five). About 90% of children are out of school.

Children are among those who are severely affected by war. The number of children who need humanitarian aid in the country doubling. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports These 15 million children require support, from 7.8 million in early 2023, the year’s battle broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a former ally of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudan is today the biggest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world in the world, with more than 30 million people needing humanitarian aid this year.

Hunger is spreading at a worrying pace. The UN Global Food Program (WFP) has now confirmed hunger in 10 sites, with more places at risk. The Agency recalled that between 2022 and 2024, about 60% of annual imports for severe acute malnutrition occurred during the rainy season, which means that up to 462,000 children could be affected this year if the trend holds.

With the ever -years of time, humanitarian access to children in Sudan closes due to the intensity of the conflict and bureaucratic obstacles. Funding for life services is extremely low.

Disease explosions are also expected to increase, while vaccination rates are reduced. Last year, 49,000 cases of cholera and over 11,000 cases of fever fever were reported, which mainly affect mothers and children. Such epidemics are further exacerbated by the effects of the rainy season, including water contamination, poor drainage and increased movement and population movement.

However, hunger and illness are not the only threats to children in Sudan. As referenced From UNICEF, “the situation is aggravated by a deadly combination of interconnected factors, such as a ten times increasing the number of serious violations against children, namely murder and disappearance, abduction, recruitment and use of hostilities, rape and other forms of sexual and other forms of sexual violence. While serious human rights violations were previously confined to areas such as Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan, such violations have now been verified in more than half of Sudan’s 18 states. The reported violations against the Sudan people meet the legal definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the case of Darfur, where entire communities are targeted because of their nationality, the issue of genocide has been raised. All of these crimes must be investigated and those responsible brought to justice.

The situation in Sudan requires urgent action to stop conflict and provide comprehensive help to all those who are affected. Without these steps, Sudan’s people have no opportunity. In the words of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, “its continuation of looking will have catastrophic consequences.”