The World Health Organization described the civil war in Sudan as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The war has displaced 14 million people and left more than 33 million people in need of assistance.
Acute food insecurity affects 19.5 million people, representing 41% of the population, while 5 million people face emergency levels of hunger. Severe acute malnutrition could exceed 825,000 children.
El Niño has increased drought and reduced rainfall across more than half of Sudan. The US State Department published a joint statement on Monday signed by the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, the US, and EU states.
Yusuf Roble said, "There is very little to survive on." Roble met a mother of seven children who has not known the whereabouts of her husband for three and a half years, noting he was the sole breadwinner for the family.
Roble added that their meals come from a community kitchen which lacks long-term support because of funding cuts.
