The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a contribution from Finland. Over 300,000 people in refugee camps in Sudan will benefit from this donation.
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UK makes holiday gift to Sudan
The United Kingdom made a holiday gift to Sudan this week.
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Disputed African region faces hunger emergency
A generation of children in South Sudan are growing up in hunger and without education. There is hope for some children with school feeding provided by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
So far this year, WFP has fed about 192,000 children in South Sudan with meals in schools that are still open. When WFP sees an area where hunger rates are high, they set up school feeding to help. It’s a food for education initiative.
If you can feed children at school, that encourages parents to send their children. The promise of a free meal at school means everything in area where hunger and poverty are so high. School meals are considered a safety net for the poor.
Around 20,000 school girls are receiving take-home rations as well. This improves school attendance rates among girls, which are historically lower.
Overall, the school feeding is an effective way to feed children and allow them to stay in school. This keeps the children safe from recruitment into armed forces and other dangers.
WFP relies on voluntary donations to keep school feeding and other food programs operating. They need donations more than ever in areas struck by conflict like South Sudan.
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Healing Darfur, Sudan with school meals
How do you build peace in Darfur and throughout Sudan? This year alone has seen almost 400,000 people displaced by fighting between the government and rebel groups. Conflict between tribes has added to the chaos.
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A chance for peace in hungry Darfur
Here is a story of hope amid the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Civilians had fled to Korma in North Darfur to escape attacks by an armed group. They took refuge near a United Nations peacekeeping base.
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Saving the children in Darfur, Sudan
Darfur and Sudan will not escape the legacy of war and poverty with its children suffering from hunger. The statistics on malnutrition in the country are staggering.
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Sudan a forgotten hunger crisis
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning of increasing hunger in Sudan, including Darfur. The FAO says 3.3. million people in Sudan are suffering from hunger now, but the number will increase to 4 million this year. One out of every nine people in Sudan will be a victim of hunger.
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Switzerland donating milk to fight hunger in Sudan
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced donations from Switzerland to fight hunger in Sudan. The donations include dried skimmed milk to treat malnutrition in small children.
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Olympics host Russia donates to UN World Food Programme
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced two donations from Russia to fight hunger. Russia, which is hosting the Olympics this week, is supporting WFP operations in Sudan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Aid Groups Need Access to Starving People in Sudan’s South Kordofan State
Thousands have been displaced by the conflicts in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan. These areas are facing a hunger crisis and aid groups need access. Credit: UNHCR
This week the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced it had started distributing aid in Sudan‘s conflict-affected Blue Nile state. Previously WFP had not been granted access to this area where rebels (SPLM-N) are fighting Sudan’s government.
Now food aid must be allowed into South Kordofan state which, like Blue Nile, has been devastated by this same conflict. There are reports of tremendous suffering in South Kordofan. Yet aid is not allowed to go through.
View slideshow: Hunger and displacement from conflicts in South Kordofan and Blue NileIn a joint statement in March, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “We remain deeply concerned by the security and humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan. It is imperative that both Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) seize the opportunity of direct talks to address the urgent need for a cessation of hostilities, humanitarian access to all areas, and the longer-term political solution. We welcome SPLM-N’s acceptance of the invitation to direct talks and urge the Government of Sudan to do the same, without pre-conditions.”
Currently, the World Food Programme and aid groups are able to operate only in the government-held areas of South Kordofan. Save the Children Sweden has done nutrition screenings for children under five years old in parts of South Kordofan under government control. So far 89,482 have been screened with around 15,000 of the children either moderately or severely malnourished. Plumpy’Nut, a special peanut paste, is being used to treat the children. Without the treatment children will suffer lasting physical and mental damage from malnutrition.
With reports of people living off roots and leaves in the conflict zones of South Kordofan, malnutrition rates would be expected to go much higher. The World Food Programme and other aid groups need access to all of South Kordofan.
Meanwhile, funding is urgently needed for the relief effort in Blue Nile. WFP Sudan Country Director Adnan Khan, speaking of Blue Nile, says, “While we continue to strive for access to all areas, this is still a major breakthrough which will enable us to assist those who continue to be displaced by the conflict or those who have decided to return to their homes and are in dire need of food assistance. For this immediate response, we will need an additional US $20.5 million which will be used to buy 17,000 metric tons of food.”
Article first published as Aid Groups Need Access to Starving People in Sudan’s South Kordofan State on Blogcritics.
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