Sudan: Violence, food insecurity, broken healthcare and disease a 'perfect storm'
WHO regional emergency director, Dr Richard Brennan, says situation in Sudan "catastrophic".
Sudan's civil war has been destroying lives and livelihoods for nearly a year now. And it's getting worse - according to the World Health Organization's latest public health analysis, the numbers of people needing urgent assistance has grown by a third in 2024.
WHO regional emergency director Dr Richard Brennan has just returned from a short visit to Port Sudan. He tells ±«Óătv Newsday: "This is one of the largest and most acute humanitarian crises in the world. Twenty-point point eight million people needing humanitarian assistance, more people displaced acutely than any other crisis.
"I rarely use the the term 'catastrophic' but I'm using it for two of our crises today - Gaza and Sudan," he says.
The conflict has caused immense suffering, with at least 14,600 killed and 33,000 injured. Food insecurity, five disease outbreaks and a broken health system have created "a perfect storm".
(Photo: Sudanese refugees collect water from a borehole at the Gorom Refugee camp, South Sudan. Credit: Samir Bol/Reuters)
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