Sudanese starvation as the kitchens for the soup close and earning parties block help | Sudanese war news

The decision of the United States to suspend the foreign aid exacerbates the catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan, where millions are risking to die from illnesses related to the relentlessness.

Ever since he assumed his post in January, the administration of US President Donald Trump has left leave or dismissed the vast majority of employees at the US International Development Agency (USAID) and Almost all global projects paused It fundes it.

Last year, USAID contributed 44 percent of humanitarian response in the amount of $ 1.8 billion, according to the United Nations.

Part of this sum has switched to the support of an emergency response room (ERRS), which are a neighborhood assistance groups supporting hundreds of “community kitchens” throughout the country.

“About 80 percent of 1,460 community kitchens across Sudan were closed [when USAID paused all funding]”, Said Hajoj Kuk, a spokesman for the mistake in the state of Khartoum.

Filling in the gap

Since in April 2023, in the Civil War in April 2023, the struggle for power between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary forces for fast support (RSF) broke out, the utility cuisine held hundreds of thousands of people in the regions in which the UN -A global assistance organizations were unable to Intentional obstruction of assistance by warring partiesAccording to local and foreign workers for help.

Despite the efforts of Err Volunteers, more than 600,000 people in Sudan are facing hunger hunger levels, and about eight million are on the verge of drawing in hunger, according to the Global Hunger Monitor, UN -integrated food safety classification (IPC).

The USAID financing break now risks the hunger crisis.

According to Iyad AGHA, a humanitarian coordinator for international non -governmental organizations in Sudan, some organizations have gained renunciation from the US government to continue to manage life saving services.

However, many of these services were eventually abolished after a subsequent US examination found that they were not needed to maintain life. For days later, Trump’s administration revealed some endings and allowed some services to continue.

Aghha said Washington’s decisions were “completely random”.

“The non -governmental organizations are paralyzed and do not know how to act in the midst of chaos and confusion and affected people [who need aid in Sudan] Most of all this chaos is affected, “he told Al Jazeera.

“The problem is that if other donors want to enter [for the absence of USAID] There is [a large gap] To fulfill, “AGHA added.

Errs took things into their own hands to find alternative financing.

The hook said that the kitchens in the community had requested funds from Sudanese diaspora and smaller charity organizations to continue providing meals with relaxed civilians during the Holy Moon of Ramadan, which began earlier in March.

Their efforts have helped hundreds of cuisine in the community to reopen throughout the country, but 63 percent remain closed since the US government paused with most of the help, Kuk said.

“There is only so much we can do. There is simply not enough food for people,” he told Al Jazeera.

“But we started an online urge to donate people and during Ramadan, people tend to donate more at that time,” he added.

Obstacles and looting

Both sides in the Civil War of Sudan are responsible for creating a hunger crisis, according to local and foreign workers for help.

One question cited by some workers to help UN agencies recognize the Sudanese army as de facto government.

This policy strengthened the army to approve or deny the shipment to help that encounters borders from neighboring countries such as Chad and South Sudan, which the army does not control. Critics have previously told Al Jazeera that humanitarians should cooperate with the relevant authorities in each area of ​​Sudan to reach as much needy as possible.

In addition, UN agencies that treat the military as a de facto government have to base all humanitarian operations outside Port Sudan, which is why it is logistically difficult to reach distant regions, such as the Nube mountains in southern Cordofan and the Darfuro Advise.

The army is also charged with imposing bureaucratic obstacles for obstructing and delaying shipments for help.

“The army procedures are very bulky. It’s a paperwork mountain,” explained Leni Kinzli, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program (WFP).

“We have to deal with different authorities: military intelligence, humanitarian aid commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Intelligence Service and the National Intelligence Service.

“Basically, for all [aid truck to move]We have to get the seal of all these agencies, “she told Al Jazeera.

Analysts and workers also accuse SAF of forbidden to help regions control RSF. But the army spokesman Nabil Abdullah has repeatedly denied this charge and criticized the RSF for starving civilians.

Hind Al-Atif, a spokesman for ERR in Sharq El-Nileu, an extended neighborhood in Khartoum, has accused the RSF of worsening the hunger crisis.

She said that the group had robbed all the main markets in Cartum on the eve of Ramadan and that many civilians hesitated to leave their neighborhoods to look for food for fear that they could attack them on RSF control points.

“People are afraid to escape because RSF often robs people from their money and phone,” she told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera contacted the RSF office to comment on charges that his fighters plunder civilians in weapons and robbery markets, but the group did not respond before the announcement.

Uncertainty and starvation

As the struggles escalate between the RSF Sudanese army, the local assistance groups and the help agencies are increasingly difficult to reach relaxed civilians.

In a craftsmanship camp, where more than 500,000 people are prone to North Darfur and struggling to survive hunger, WFP was forced to suspend assistance operations when the RSF 10 and 11 February shelled the camp.

WFP has provided about 60,000 people in Zamzam through a local organization.

“Our field partners were forced to evacuate. They were forced to run for their life [due to RSF shelling] And that’s why we had to stop help, “Kinzli said, a spokesman for the agency.

The battle for Khartoun also causes great displacement throughout Sharq El-Nile, pushing several remaining communal cuisines to try to feed thousands of new arrivals.

As people become more desperate, the hook says that many try to look for fish in Nile or grow vegetables in their gardens, but the amount of food that most people manage to eat is not enough.

He noted that the mistakes reach the European Union, as well as the UN, to try to fulfill the gap left by USAID. If no one stood up, the hook warned that hundreds of thousands of people would starve and die of illness related to the relentlessness.

“We’re talking about 1.8 million people who benefit from these kitchens. What does it mean if I can no longer get food? “the hook asked.

“People are already on the edge. We [as ERRs] We just try to stop more regions in Sudan to slide into complete hunger. But if this [food shortage] It continues, then there will be more and more pockets of hunger across the country. “