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Crisis in Sudan: War, Famine, and a Failing Global Response [1]
['Lindsay Maizland', 'Olivia', 'Angelino', 'Thomas J. Bollyky', 'Ebenezer Obadare', 'With Carolyn Kissane', 'Irina A. Faskianos', 'With Antony J. Blinken', 'Michael Froman', 'Deepmala Mahla']
Date: 2024-12
The lack of clean water and deteriorating sanitation combines with the downed health system to create a “perfect storm” of disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Sudan has said.
Reports indicate that malaria, cholera, measles, dengue, and more are spreading like wildfire. Meanwhile, thousands of Sudan’s patients whose conditions are life threatening when untreated, such as HIV and tuberculosis, have seen their care disrupted.
The United Nations has documented an “alarming” rise in sexual assault and rape on the part of the largely male combatants, the vast majority of them RSF. Many asylum seekers have reported experiencing or witnessing abduction, assault, rape, or other forms of gender-based violence. The Sudan war “is actually a war on women,” the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International’s Chief Humanitarian Officer Deepmala Mahla tells CFR.
The violence has also increasingly followed ethnic lines. The Masalit tribe has been a major target of retaliatory violence from largely Arab rival groups such as the RSF and government-allied militias, which have waged a campaign of murder and torture to drive approximately 540,000 Masalit from their homes in the El Geneina region.
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