Two senior UN humanitarian officials have called for more funding and fewer bureaucratic impediments to support civilians affected by the crisis in Sudan, including roughly 14 million children.
Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations at the UN children’s agency (UNICEF), and Edem Wosornu, Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division at the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA), briefed journalists on their recent mission to the country and Chad, one of several neighbouring nations hosting some 900,000 people who fled the violence.
The crisis in Sudan recently passed the 100-day mark. Overall, 24 million people across the country require aid.
Chaiban expressed hope that ongoing talks in Saudi Arabia will lead to a cessation of hostilities, noting that the conflict is threatening the lives and futures of children and young people, who make up over 70 percent of Sudan’s population.
Chaiban said nearly 14 million children desperately need humanitarian relief – a number that is equivalent to all the boys and girls in Colombia, France, Germany or Thailand. Some 1.7 million have been driven from their homes, adding to the nearly two million who were already uprooted before the crisis.
Source : Zawya