According to the official, this figure is the highest since the beginning of the conflict for people in need of humanitarian aid in Sudan.

Chattaraj indicated this Friday, in a press conference from Khartoum via video conference, that of the four million affected people, to whom it was possible to deliver aid, more than one and a half million were in full famine or at risk of falling into it.

Without specifying which, the official said that the increase in aid is due to the fact that some areas of Sudan changed hands in the conflict, which allowed the entry to places previously off-limits to humanitarian aid.

However, it was denounced that this aid is still not enough, since there are about 25 million people with high levels of malnutrition, including 5 million nursing mothers and children.

The United Nations has made continuous appeals to demand the delivery of humanitarian aid to the refugee camps in the Darfur region, where more than 350 people have already been killed by paramilitary attacks besieging the city of Al Fasher.

Since mid-April 2023, this African nation has been plunged into an internal war, following the escalation of power disputes between the army chief Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

The fighting has already destroyed countless livelihoods, plunging the country into a complex spiral of hunger and death.

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