200,000 Children, Women at Risk of Starvation in Sudan

Save the Children warned on Wednesday that about 230,000 children and pregnant or nursing women are at imminent risk of starvation in Sudan, a country torn apart by ongoing conflict for nearly a year between the military and the Rapid Support Forces.

The fighting has resulted in thousands of deaths, with 8 million people displaced, according to the United Nations, plunging Sudan into one of the worst food crises globally, as stated by Arif Noor, the local director of Save the Children, in a press release.

The NGO reported that over 2.9 million children are suffering from malnutrition, with an additional 729,000 children under five experiencing severe malnutrition, the most extreme form of hunger.

In early March, the World Food Programme cautioned that the war in Sudan "could lead to the largest hunger crisis in the world," in a country already facing the largest displacement crisis internationally.

Daily practices now include the bombing of civilians, destruction of infrastructure, rape, looting, forced displacement, and burning of villages, affecting 48 million Sudanese people.

Currently, over half of the Sudanese population, including 14 million children, require humanitarian aid to survive, as per the United Nations.