The African Union, AU, on Tuesday said Sudan's civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, warning that it was leaving hundreds of thousands of children malnourished.
According to the AU and the International Rescue Committee, the Sudanese army has been at war since April 2023 with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, in a conflict that has displaced no fewer than 12 million people.
Chairman of an AU panel on Sudan, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, in a post via X on Tuesday, said the conflict has hampered access to humanitarian relief, led to shortage of food and aggravated hunger.
"Children and women are continually abused, and the elderly and sick lack medical assistance. This is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world," he said.
A senior AU official for child welfare, Wilson Almeida Adao, in a separate X post said that hospital admissions for malnutrition rose by 44 percent in 2024, with over 431,000 children receiving treatment.
"We witness reports of grave violations, including attacks on schools and hospitals, forced recruitment of child soldiers, and the denial of humanitarian access," he said.
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