GENEVA: Funding cuts are driving an entire generation of children in Sudan to the brink of irreversible harm as support is scaled back and malnutrition cases persist across the country, the UN children’s agency said on Tuesday.
UNHCR and other UN agencies face one of the worst funding crises in decades, compounded by US and other donor states’ decisions to slash foreign aid funding.
“Children have limited access to safe water, food, health care. Malnutrition is rife, and many good children are reduced to just skin, bones,” said Sheldon Yett, UNICEF’s Representative in Sudan, speaking via video link from Port Sudan.
Sudan’s conflict between the army and rival Rapid Support Forces has displaced millions and split the country into rival zones of control with the RSF still deeply embedded in western Sudan.
Several areas to the south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum are at risk of famine, the World Food Programme said in July.
