Malnutrition, healthcare system at risk, refugees and violence in Darfur
Arabic news roundup
By William Greenwood
UNICEF: 3.2 million children in Sudan will suffer from acute malnutrition
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) revealed on Friday that 3.2 million children under the age of five will suffer from acute malnutrition this year across Sudan.
UNICEF announced last week that acute malnutrition had exceeded the emergency threshold in 80% of the areas where nutrition surveys were conducted.
Eva Hinds, Chief of Advocacy and Communications at UNICEF Sudan, said current projections indicate that 3.2 million children under the age of five will suffer from acute malnutrition this year across Sudan.
She confirmed that 770,000 children will face the most serious form of malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition, in hard-to-reach famine hotspots in Zamzam, Abu Shouk, and Al Salam camps in North Darfur, as well as in the Nuba Mountains, in addition to other areas at risk of famine.
From: Sudan Tribune
Sudan on the brink of health collapse: deadly epidemics and fever, mothers and children dying in silence
The Sudanese Ministry of Health reported that 70% of hospitals and health centres are out of service in the states of Khartoum, Darfur, Kordofan, Gezira, and Sennar, as well as parts of Blue and White Nile.
The ministry indicated that the ongoing fighting has put more than 60% of pharmacies and warehouses out of service, either through looting or damage.
Due to the disruption of environmental health services, diseases and epidemics have spread, and cases of diseases such as malaria, cholera, and dengue fever have increased, according to the report.
The report added that total losses to the health sector in Sudan have reached approximately $11.04 billion, including buildings, medical equipment, medical furniture, ambulances, mobile vehicles, and medicines.
In the same context, the World Health Organization stated that the humanitarian situation has become complex and exacerbated by attacks on health facilities, which continue to hinder vital health interventions.
It is estimated that more than one million pregnant women are deprived of prenatal and natal care.
From: Dabanga
New displacement of refugees from Kordofan to Darfur
Dozens of families from the Bara, Umm Qirfa, and Mazroub areas in North Kordofan State arrived in East and South Darfur States following renewed fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Most of the displaced who arrived in Darfur fled Khartoum State several months ago and settled in the Bara, Umm Qirfa, and Mazroub areas, and have fled again after fighting spread to the region.
Videos circulated on social media showing civilians being subjected to violence, beatings, and abuse by members of the army and its allied militias, who were accused of aiding the Rapid Support Forces.
From: Darfur24
English news roundup
By Samuel Hunt
The UN restarts Humanitarian operations in Khartoum
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reopened its office in Khartoum to expand humanitarian and recovery operations in the capital, becoming the first UN agency to re-establish a presence in the city since the war began.
In Khartoum, the number of returnees is expected to reach 2.1 million this year, compared to an estimated five million who were displaced from the city at the height of the fighting.
The RSF took responsibility for a series of drone strikes across Khartoum state that targeted the country's main oil refinery, power stations in the cities of Bahri and Omdurman, a fuel depot in southern Khartoum, as well as at least one military base.
Deadly attacks on civilians continue across Darfur
Deadly attacks across Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) saw 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrive at Médecins Sans Frontières-supported health facilities. Four people across the facilities were declared dead on arrival.
“Some people have walked 60 kilometres on foot, bleeding from gunshot wounds and severe whippings, yet they are the fortunate few who survived the horrors of El Fasher and the journey to escape it,” says Sylvain Penicaud, MSF project Coordinator in Tawila
The Polish Institute of International Affairs, says the siege of El Fasher risks another genocide
The siege around the city of El Fasher continues, with those who have remained under constant shelling.
Those fleeing the city told Reuters reporters that people are dying by the dozens and hospitals are packed with injured people, but with no stocks of gauze to stop their bleeding.