Imminent Famine… UN Warns of El-Fashir Turning into a “Ghost Town”

Amid the months-long siege that has suffocated El-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur State in Sudan, the Director of Operations at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosorno, stressed the need for a sufficient armistice to allow UN teams to address the dire conditions in the city.

Wosorno confirmed that the United Nations has obtained guarantees from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) to allow humanitarian aid into El-Fashir, but is still awaiting consent from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to complete the operation.

She warned that the situation in the capital, Khartoum, has become “catastrophic,” describing it as a “ghost town” as a result of the ongoing war, according to Al-Arabiya.

Skin on Bones :

The United Nations had previously warned that starving children in Khartoum were “skin on bones,” while thousands of civilians in El-Fashir were facing imminent famine.

Wosorno noted that the war that broke out in Sudan in mid-April 2023 has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions of people, with food insecurity escalating, affecting nearly 25 million people, in what the organization considers “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.”

Prices of basic commodities have risen by 460%, and markets are empty of most goods.

Most community kitchens have closed. The World Food Programme stated that “resilience has been completely destroyed after more than two years of war, and several lives will be lost without immediate and sustained access to aid.”