The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council said Jan Egeland At the conclusion of his visit to Sudan, on Friday, he said that a year and a half of war started the countdown “relentlessly towards total collapse in Sudan,” where more than 20 million people suffer from raging violence, increasing hunger, and forced displacement.
Egeland described the current crisis in Sudan as “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world ever,” noting the need to wake up the world and force it to do everything possible to save the lives of millions of Sudanese. He explained: “When the war broke out in… Darfur “Twenty years ago, we had presidents and prime ministers engaged in stopping the atrocities there, but today, even though there are exponentially more lives at stake, the world is meeting them with deafening silence.”
Egeland expressed the horror of the growing tragedy in the country, saying: “I have just seen with my own eyes, in Darfur and in the East, the devastating result of indiscriminate attacks and senseless war… The communities we serve tell us of horrific violence, where entire villages have been destroyed, civilians have been executed, women have been raped, and homes have been destroyed by bombing.” And air strikes.”
He saw that Sudan He is living a “scorched earth” policy and is close to “free fall” as suffering continues and millions face danger Famine.
He warned that delays in taking action and insufficient diplomatic efforts would increase suffering Sudanese people.
Shocking consequences
The ongoing war in Sudan since mid-April 2023 has caused extremely shocking humanitarian, security and economic consequences.
On the humanitarian side, the war displaced more than a third of the population, stripped about 18 percent of families of their sources of income completely, and prevented 70 percent of them from enrolling their children in school. The percentage of those able to access health services declined to less than 15 percent of the total population. Their population is estimated at about 48 million people, according to a study conducted by it United Nations.
The percentage of food-secure urban families decreased from about 54 percent to only 20 percent, with 76 percent of them facing great difficulties in receiving aid.
Economically, the war accelerated the country’s horrific economic deterioration, with estimates indicating direct monthly losses of about $500 million.
The gross output declined by more than 70 percent, and the national currency lost more than 400 percent of its value, with one dollar currently trading at about 2,300 pounds, compared to 600 pounds before the outbreak of the war. Inflation rates also rose to more than 200 percent, and the prices of basic goods doubled. Rates reached 400 percent.
As for the security aspect, the aerial and ground bombardment and the heavy presence of armed militias caused a complete collapse in many areas of the country.
The most prominent manifestations of collapse
- More than 61 thousand people died in Khartoum Between April 2023 and June 2024, according to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- During October 2024, attacks on civilians and fighting across the country killed about 2,600 people and displaced more than 27,000 people, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
- Cause Conflict in Sudan In the largest displacement crisis in the world, more than 11 million people have been displaced within the country, and another 3 million have crossed the border to seek refuge in neighboring countries, according to the United Nations.
- The war deprived about 17 million children from continuing their education, while 3.7 million children suffer from malnutrition, and more than 3 million children live in Displacement camps It lacks the most basic necessities of life, according to UNICEF.
- 60 percent of Sudanese lost their sources of income, the economy lost hundreds of billions, and 80 percent of its capabilities were disrupted.
- About 70 percent of health institutions are out of service in light of a significant scarcity of… drug And a wide spread of epidemic and infectious diseases, according to the Sudan Doctors Syndicate.
- Complete chaos prevails in most areas of the country, with the war covering more than 70 percent of the country’s area and the presence of more than 100 armed movements.
