Severe flooding in agricultural regions in July has intensified the lack of food. 

Guernsey’s Overseas Aid & Development Commission has released £60,000 to the United Nations Refugee Agency via the UK to provide lifesaving assistance to the innocent people including food, water, medicine, and shelter. 

The organisation has ease of access to remote communities in the country and has multiple bases throughout working with local partners. 

Deputy Chris Blin, President of the Committee, said “It was already hard to comprehend the scale of the food crisis in Sudan. The recent declaration of famine in North Dafur is the worst possible news and there is now a high risk this will also occur in other areas. 

Pictured: Deputy Chris Blin. 

“The Commission understands that women and children continue to be disproportionately impacted by the hunger crisis. Malnutrition rates among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women are particularly concerning - pregnant women are losing their children due to malnutrition.  

“Sudan is the world’s largest hunger crisis with people even dying of hunger in the capital city. The funds donated by the Commission, on behalf of the people of the Bailiwick, will be used by the UNHCR to provide food, shelter and lifesaving equipment to those desperately in need.” 

The United States launched another round of peace talks this month, but neither Sudanese side showed up to the first meeting in Switzerland.  

The army had demanded that paramilitaries vacate public facilities and civilian homes, but this condition hasn't been met.  

The UK has described some attacks thought to have been committed by the paramilitaries as ethnic cleansing, with non-Arabic people and certain tribes seemingly targeted.