Sudan: Darfur Humanitarian Forum - Slm-Aw Calls for 'Declaration of Famine'

The Sudan Liberation Movement headed by Abdelwahid Nur reported that more than 26,000 children sheltering in Jebel Marra are malnourished and urged the UN to officially declare a famine in the region. Other speakers called on the UN"to intervene under Chapter 7'.of the international community and convince them that there is a famine ongoing in Darfur, not just a nutrition gap".

Furi called on the United Nations"to intervene under Chapter Seven to protect the roads and ensure the arrival of aid". Mustafa said that people in the camps for the displaced and villages in Darfur"are eating leaves and locusts to combat hunger". "We have received an overwhelming number of displaced and affected individuals who fled the ravages of war in Sudan between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces . The civil authority has accommodated them in safe and secure camps. However, the civil authority is operating with limited resources and has not received support from any source. The number of displaced persons has exceeded 450,000 families, equivalent to approximately 2,250,000 individuals, distributed among 13 camps.

"We urge the parties to the conflict not to use relief as a weapon of war against our people and not to intercept humanitarian convoys and to allow them immediate and unconditional passage."Mohamed Abdallah El Doma, former governor of West Darfur and co-founder of the DBA, criticised"the world's lack of interest in the issue of Darfur and Sudan and the focus on the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Red Sea" in his speech at the Kalma forum yesterday.

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