Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of
civil war
Sudan lies in Northeast Africa just in the south of Egypt. The
population is nearly 50 million, most of whom are Sunni Islam, and the capital
is Khartoum. Today’s Sudan was the northern region of the former Sudan that was
split in 2011 when the southern region, mostly Christians, voted to become
independent after decades of religious and ethnic conflicts. Since a power
struggle started about a year ago between two military factions, the Sudanese
Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), millions of civilians,
including two million children under five years old have been forced to flee.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to neighboring countries or returned
home in adverse circumstances – notably to the Central African Republic, Chad,
Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Others self-relocated within Sudan, and thousands
of homes, schools, hospitals, and other civilian structures have been destroyed.
Despite the call for humanitarian aid to the international community, not
enough funding has been obtained. Also, aid items are hardly delivered to those
who want them the most because of the upheaval caused by the conflict. At the
moment, little or no hope is seen for the future of Sudan.
Read the article and learn about what the situation has been like in
Sudan in the last 12 months.
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