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Arab News
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Food supplies to some Sudan refugees could dry up within 2 months, WFP says
GENEVA: Food aid to help Sudanese refugees in four neighboring countries could end within the next couple of months without an urgent injection of new funding, a World Food Programme official said on Tuesday, warning of rising malnutrition levels. Over 4 million refugees have fled Sudan's more than two-year civil war to seven neighboring countries where shelter conditions are widely viewed as inadequate due to chronic funding shortages. 'Unless new funding is secured, all refugees will face assistance cuts in the coming months,' Shaun Hughes, the WFP's emergency coordinator for the Sudan regional crisis, told a Geneva press briefing, calling for $200 million over six months. 'In the case of four countries — that's the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya — WFP's operations are now so severely underfunded, that all support could cease in the coming months as resources run dry,' he said, clarifying later that this could happen within two months. Many of those fleeing are escaping from hunger hot spots in Sudan. A joint UN report said last month the country was at immediate risk of famine. Hughes said that any reduction or end to rations would leave child refugees at a greater risk of malnutrition. Asked why the funding had fallen, he cited reductions from donors across the board and rising humanitarian needs. He added that the United States, which has reduced its foreign aid spending dramatically under President Donald Trump, remained its top donor for Sudan.
Reuters
01-07-2025
- General
- Reuters
Food supplies to some Sudan refugees could dry up within two months, WFP says
GENEVA, July 1 (Reuters) - Food aid to help Sudanese refugees in four neighbouring countries could end within the next couple of months without an urgent injection of new funding, a World Food Programme official said on Tuesday, warning of rising malnutrition levels. "Unless new funding is secured, all refugees will face assistance cuts in the coming months," said Shaun Hughes, the WFP's Emergency Coordinator for the Sudan Regional Crisis, referring to over four million refugees who have fled Sudan's civil war. "In the case of four countries - that's the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya - WFP's operations are now so severely underfunded, that all support will cease in the coming months as resources run dry," he said, clarifying later that this could happen within two months.
Zawya
30-06-2025
- General
- Zawya
Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: World Food Programme (WFP)
In an alert, the UN agency warned that it faces having to make 'drastic cuts' to life-saving food assistance, which may 'grind to a halt' in the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya in the coming months as resources run out. WFP noted that the situation for many Sudanese refugees is already dire, more than two years since war erupted between Sudan's national army and paramilitary rebels. 'In Uganda, many vulnerable refugees are surviving on less than 500 calories a day' – less than a quarter of daily nutritional needs – as new arrivals strain refugee support systems, WFP said. In Chad, which hosts almost a quarter of the four million refugees who fled Sudan, food rations will be reduced in the coming months without new contributions. Vulnerable youngsters Children are particularly vulnerable to sustained periods of hunger and malnutrition rates among young refugees in reception centres in Uganda and South Sudan have already breached emergency thresholds. According to WFP, refugees are already severely malnourished even before arriving in neighbouring countries to receive emergency assistance. 'This is a full-blown regional crisis that's playing out in countries that already have extreme levels of food insecurity and high levels of conflict,' said Shaun Hughes, WFP Emergency Coordinator for the Sudan Regional Crisis. 'Millions of people who have fled Sudan depend wholly on support from WFP, but without additional funding we will be forced to make further cuts to food assistance. This will leave vulnerable families, and particularly children, at increasingly severe risk of hunger and malnutrition.' Distributed by APO Group on behalf of UN News.
