FALCON POWERS – The senior UN aid official in Sudan said that the international community must pay greater attention and provide greater resources to war-torn Sudan, where “millions are trapped in a hell of brutal violence”.
The UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Klemantina Nkwiti Salami, warned that “time is running out” with famine, disease, and fighting closing in on the population, with no end in sight.
Speaking to journalists at UN headquarters in New York, she said: “The international community cannot stand idly by as this crisis spirals out of control, as this conflict’s stranglehold tightens around the civilian population.”
The conflict in Sudan has led to the displacement of around 6.6 million people, more than 53% of them from the capital Khartoum, while nearly 2 million individuals have fled across borders to neighboring countries such as Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, and Central Africa.
