Shafaqna English- The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that Sudan faces a “massive” humanitarian aid crisis.
WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau told Al Jazeera on Sunday (07 Dec 2025) that his organisation was assisting five million people across the nation, including two million in hard-to-reach areas, but it was not enough.
“The needs are massive. We’re talking about 20 million people acutely food insecure, some six million in starvation,” he said. “It is a massive crisis, and what we’re able to do, which is important, isn’t enough.”
He said the organisation had “tried every way possible” to get aid to populations in need, including air drops, digital cash transfers and stationing convoys outside besieged areas.
But it had not been possible in violence-ridden areas like El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, which was under an 18-month siege before it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in October, or the West Kordofan city of Babnusa, which the RSF claimed to have gained control of last week.
Source: Al Jazeera