1,700 Sudanese children suffering from malnutrition in Tawila camp, local group warns

At least 1,700 children are suffering from severe malnutrition in Tawila displacement camp in North Darfur, one of Sudan’s largest sites for internally displaced people amid fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a local organization warned Friday, Anadolu reports. Two-thirds of Sudan’s population now needs urgent humanitarian assistance, whether inside displacement camps or within host communities in rural areas, villages and nomadic regions, the General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugees said in a statement. Tawila camp, it said, has received more than 1 million displaced people since the war between the army and the RSF erupted on April 15, 2023. The recent violence in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, alone pushed “hundreds […]