Johannesburg - An aid agency issued a “crisis alert” Tuesday over war-torn Sudan, calling out the international community for its failure to address the civil war that has raged there for over a year.
“The world is not watching us, we are heading for famine, massive loss of life, and a failed state,” the IRC’s country director for Sudan, Eatizaz Yousif, told CBS News.
Sudan’s army – which has been at war with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary faction since April 2023 – has prevented a lot of the data collection that would be required for a famine declaration, charity workers in the country have told CBS News.
The worst-hit part of the country is the Darfur region, where international aid organizations have leveled allegations of genocide amid intense shelling in the city of El Fasher, which was once home to 3 million people.
The military has started encouraging young men to take up arms to fight alongside the regular army, with rumors suggesting the RSF is using forced conscription in the Darfur region to bolster its numbers.
There was hope over the last few weeks that pressure from the U.S. and other countries could help usher in a peace deal, but all lines seem to have gone quiet in spite of the regional and global security implications, Yousif said.
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Johannesburg - An aid agency issued a “crisis alert” Tuesday over war-torn Sudan, calling out the international community for its failure to address the civil war that has raged there for over a year.
“The world is not watching us, we are heading for famine, massive loss of life, and a failed state,” the IRC’s country director for Sudan, Eatizaz Yousif, told CBS News.
Sudan’s army – which has been at war with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary faction since April 2023 – has prevented a lot of the data collection that would be required for a famine declaration, charity workers in the country have told CBS News.
The worst-hit part of the country is the Darfur region, where international aid organizations have leveled allegations of genocide amid intense shelling in the city of El Fasher, which was once home to 3 million people.
The military has started encouraging young men to take up arms to fight alongside the regular army, with rumors suggesting the RSF is using forced conscription in the Darfur region to bolster its numbers.
There was hope over the last few weeks that pressure from the U.S. and other countries could help usher in a peace deal, but all lines seem to have gone quiet in spite of the regional and global security implications, Yousif said.
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