At a UN Security Council meeting on August 6, the United States accused the SAF of restricting humanitarians from accessing supplies through the critical Adre crossing. Similarly, the United Kingdom said the armed forces were obstructing aid delivery into Darfur, including shutting the Adre crossing, the most direct route to deliver assistance at scale.
This comes as famine conditions are prevalent” in parts of Sudan’s North Darfur state, including in the Zamzam camp — located near the state’s capital El Fasher and home to around half a million people displaced by civil war — according to an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released in July.
Some 26 million people are in need of assistance in Sudan — more than half of the country’s population, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ,OCHA.
More than 10 million people have fled their homes since civil war broke out in April 2023 and over half the population faces acute hunger, UN OCHA detailed.
On Tuesday, UNICEF, the UN’s children’s agency, said Sudan’s humanitarian crisis was “the biggest in the world” for children, by numbers,