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Focus on conflict in the Sudan

13 Sep 2023

In contrast to other Sudan’s borders as refugees, asylum seekers and states, and spread across the Darfur and Kordofan returnees are concentrating in areas with high levels of regions, with the most severe clashes occurring in the as insecurity limits access to fields and the availability countries, returnees comprise most of the arrivals in capital Khartoum and Ag Geneina town in West Darfur. [...] rainfall increasing the risk of flooding in the northern existing displacement crises – even before the conflict, areas of North Darfur, parts of South Kordofan, and Blue access for both refugee and host households (UNHCR, The humanitarian situation is worsened by the lack of the country was already hosting the sixth highest number Nile, Sennar, and White Nile states. [...] Conflict has interrupted alarming nutrition crisis provision of lifesaving prevention-of-malnutrition Prior to the current violence, the wasting situation in the assistance, which prior to the conflict targeted about Sudan was among the worst of the food crises covered 2 million children under 2 years (OCHA, December 2022). [...] The situation was the most severe in the malnutrition prevalence of 25.7 percent and 17.8 percent Sudan and in neighbouring countries, mostly among Renk transit centre of South Sudan and border points of in Ethiopia and 13.5 percent and 28.7 percent in South Central African Republic (border points) - - 16.9 women and children under 5 years, were already high Chad, which recorded a wasting prevalen. [...] In the Kurmuk and Metema transit centres in Ethiopia, the prevalence levels of 10.5 percent and 5.8 percent While no assessment of the nutrition situation in Refugee and returnee populations who fled the Sudan as measured by MUAC indicated a moderate nutrition country is possible, the state of individuals assessed GAM (child wasting); SAM(severe child wasting); MAM (moderate child after the onset.
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