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Briefing by Stephen Omollo, WFP Assistant Executive Director for Workplace and Management, on the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
Thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian disaster now unfolding in Sudan.
Excellencies, the World Food Programme, and other humanitarian
agencies, have been warning for months of a widespread collapse in food
security across the country.
We have been clear that famine is a real and dangerous possibility: caused
by the raging conflict, widespread displacement, and above all the denial of
humanitarian access by the warring parties.
In March, WFP briefed Council members following the release of a White
Note under Resolution 2417, which signaled that famine was imminent. We
warned then that aid agencies were being blocked from accessing
significant parts of the country with food and other essential supplies.
But our warnings have not been heard. The Famine Review Committee
[FRC] has concluded there is famine in Zamzam camp, near El Fasher, in
North Darfur. The FRC is also warning that other areas, in Darfur and
elsewhere, are at high risk of famine if urgent action is not taken to provide
lifesaving assistance at the required scale.
As you have heard from my OCHA colleague, more than half of Sudan’s
population is facing crisis levels of hunger, and the numbers continue to
climb.
Over 750,000 people are currently classified as being in IPC phase 5 –
they are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. An estimated
730,000 children are projected to suffer severe acute malnutrition this year,
the most life-threatening form of malnutrition.
This is the first time the Committee has confirmed a famine for more than
seven years, and only the third time since the global monitoring system
was launched 20 years ago.
Conditions throughout Sudan are appalling, and getting worse by the day.
This forgotten crisis has not received the political and diplomatic attention it
desperately needs. Yet it has wider implications and threatens to
destabilize the wider region.
Last week’s confirmation of famine must serve as a wake-up call for the
international community, and for members of this Council.
There must now be a coordinated diplomatic effort to address the
widespread operational challenges, and impediments, that aid agencies are
facing, as we try to reach the millions of Sudanese people in abject need.
All parties to this conflict are failing to meet their obligations and
commitments under international humanitarian law. Humanitarian space is
shrinking all the time.
Expanded access and new supply lines across borders, and across conflict
lines, are vital to enable aid agencies to meet the extraordinary needs that
exist. But the obstacles to securing them are immense.
Both parties to the conflict are routinely blocking requests for cross-line
clearances. This is severely restricting the amount of aid getting through
and preventing us from operating at scale.
Restrictions imposed on cross-border routes are another major obstacle,
preventing agencies from reaching communities in the Darfurs and
Kordofans.
The Tine crossing from Chad is open, but the rainy season has significantly
reduced delivery capacity, and it is unlikely to be useable for much longer.
It is therefore essential that the Adre crossing is officially made available to
aid agencies without further delay. Sustained and predictable flows of
humanitarian supplies are crucial to halt the mounting death toll.
Excellencies, despite the huge challenges faced by our teams on the
ground, WFP is working day and night to get lifesaving food where it is
needed the most.
We are significantly scaling-up operations across the country to curb the
spread of famine - boosting our capacity, presence and resources.
We aim to substantially increase the number of people we support. WFP
will prioritize reaching people facing emergency and catastrophic levels of
hunger – IPC level 4 and 5 – along with those who have been internally
displaced.
WFP will also continue supporting refugees who have fled the bloodshed
into neighbouring countries, such as Chad, South Sudan and Libya.
We intend to provide a mix of in-kind food assistance, with cash deployed
wherever markets are still functioning. We will also procure locally, when
feasible, in an effort to support local markets and economies.
Excellencies: humanitarian agencies will do everything we can to prevent
famine from engulfing Sudan. But we can only operate where conditions
allow, and where we are granted access.
Now more than ever, we need the Security Council to focus on this crisis,
and use its influence on the warring parties to halt the conflict that is tearing
Sudan apart...
Thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian disaster now unfolding in Sudan.
Excellencies, the World Food Programme, and other humanitarian
agencies, have been warning for months of a widespread collapse in food
security across the country.
We have been clear that famine is a real and dangerous possibility: caused
by the raging conflict, widespread displacement, and above all the denial of
humanitarian access by the warring parties.
In March, WFP briefed Council members following the release of a White
Note under Resolution 2417, which signaled that famine was imminent. We
warned then that aid agencies were being blocked from accessing
significant parts of the country with food and other essential supplies.
But our warnings have not been heard. The Famine Review Committee
[FRC] has concluded there is famine in Zamzam camp, near El Fasher, in
North Darfur. The FRC is also warning that other areas, in Darfur and
elsewhere, are at high risk of famine if urgent action is not taken to provide
lifesaving assistance at the required scale.
As you have heard from my OCHA colleague, more than half of Sudan’s
population is facing crisis levels of hunger, and the numbers continue to
climb.
Over 750,000 people are currently classified as being in IPC phase 5 –
they are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. An estimated
730,000 children are projected to suffer severe acute malnutrition this year,
the most life-threatening form of malnutrition.
This is the first time the Committee has confirmed a famine for more than
seven years, and only the third time since the global monitoring system
was launched 20 years ago.
Conditions throughout Sudan are appalling, and getting worse by the day.
This forgotten crisis has not received the political and diplomatic attention it
desperately needs. Yet it has wider implications and threatens to
destabilize the wider region.
Last week’s confirmation of famine must serve as a wake-up call for the
international community, and for members of this Council.
There must now be a coordinated diplomatic effort to address the
widespread operational challenges, and impediments, that aid agencies are
facing, as we try to reach the millions of Sudanese people in abject need.
All parties to this conflict are failing to meet their obligations and
commitments under international humanitarian law. Humanitarian space is
shrinking all the time.
Expanded access and new supply lines across borders, and across conflict
lines, are vital to enable aid agencies to meet the extraordinary needs that
exist. But the obstacles to securing them are immense.
Both parties to the conflict are routinely blocking requests for cross-line
clearances. This is severely restricting the amount of aid getting through
and preventing us from operating at scale.
Restrictions imposed on cross-border routes are another major obstacle,
preventing agencies from reaching communities in the Darfurs and
Kordofans.
The Tine crossing from Chad is open, but the rainy season has significantly
reduced delivery capacity, and it is unlikely to be useable for much longer.
It is therefore essential that the Adre crossing is officially made available to
aid agencies without further delay. Sustained and predictable flows of
humanitarian supplies are crucial to halt the mounting death toll.
Excellencies, despite the huge challenges faced by our teams on the
ground, WFP is working day and night to get lifesaving food where it is
needed the most.
We are significantly scaling-up operations across the country to curb the
spread of famine - boosting our capacity, presence and resources.
We aim to substantially increase the number of people we support. WFP
will prioritize reaching people facing emergency and catastrophic levels of
hunger – IPC level 4 and 5 – along with those who have been internally
displaced.
WFP will also continue supporting refugees who have fled the bloodshed
into neighbouring countries, such as Chad, South Sudan and Libya.
We intend to provide a mix of in-kind food assistance, with cash deployed
wherever markets are still functioning. We will also procure locally, when
feasible, in an effort to support local markets and economies.
Excellencies: humanitarian agencies will do everything we can to prevent
famine from engulfing Sudan. But we can only operate where conditions
allow, and where we are granted access.
Now more than ever, we need the Security Council to focus on this crisis,
and use its influence on the warring parties to halt the conflict that is tearing
Sudan apart...
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