{"id":228872,"date":"2024-10-09T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/09\/un-calls-for-action-as-famine-and-disease-stalk-sudan\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:12:08","slug":"un-calls-for-action-as-famine-and-disease-stalk-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/09\/un-calls-for-action-as-famine-and-disease-stalk-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN calls for action as famine and disease stalk Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">United Nations agencies have warned that famine and disease threaten to cause \u201ccountless\u201d deaths in war-torn Sudan unless emergency action is taken.<\/p>\n<p>Malnourishment, crumbling healthcare facilities and a surge of cholera cases are blighting the population, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday as they underlined the \u201cimmense challenges\u201d faced by aid workers after 18 months of war in the  country.<\/p>\n<p><b>Floundering<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has raged since April last year, killing 20,000 people and displacing more than 10 million \u2013 including 2.4 million who have fled to other countries \u2013 according to UN estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The international community has been floundering in its efforts to bring an end to the devastating conflict, which has been overshadowed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The United States announced on Tuesday that it had added Algoney Hamdan Dagalo Musa, the younger brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, to its sanctions list.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Treasury accused Musa of leading RSF\u2019s procurement of weapons and extending the country\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>However, Washington has so far rejected calls to sanction Hemedti directly over allegations that the RSF has committed human rights violations, including in the Darfur region.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has left more than 25 million people \u2013 over half the population of Sudan \u2013 in desperate need of food and healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations agencies have warned that famine and disease threaten to cause \u201ccountless\u201d deaths in war-torn Sudan unless emergency action is taken. 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