GENEVA: The UN appealed on Monday for $6 billion to provide desperately-needed aid to people in war-ravaged Sudan and millions of refugees fleeing "appalling" conditions. The aim is to provide assistance to nearly 26 million people this year, the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA and refugee agency UNHCR said in a joint appeal.
The UN agencies said the civil war has displaced 12 million people, of whom around 3.5 million have fled the country. "Sudan is a humanitarian emergency of shocking proportions," UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said in a statement. "Famine is taking hold. An epidemic of sexual violence rages. Children are being killed and injured. The suffering is appalling." Famine conditions have already been reported in at least five locations in Sudan, including in displacement camps in Darfur and in the western Nuba Mountains, the UN statement said. — AFP
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