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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Mat Nashed

Sudan facing humanitarian crisis as relief funding dwindles

Women and their children have fled to Renk County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan [File: Jok Solomun/Reuters]

As Sudan’s civil war enters its sixth month, civilians are facing a colossal humanitarian crisis as relief funding dwindles and army-imposed restrictions strangle its delivery, aid groups and activists told Al Jazeera.

Duaa Tariq, a Sudanese activist still in the capital Khartoum, told Al Jazeera about the perceptible change as the lack of adequate nutrition sets in, saying that many people can only eat one meal a day. “People’s faces are becoming very pale and the hunger is striking,” she said. “And there is no news of aid [coming]. INGO [international non-governmental organisation] support is also very low and it has killed the spirit of our volunteers.”

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