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Violence and conflict has been tearing Sudan apart since April 2023, creating the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe. Civilians have already endured an 18-month siege that has cut off all aid. Homes, hospitals, schools and mosques have been repeatedly bombed.

Many families in the city are now starving as supplies of food and medicine have run out, but humanitarian aid continues to be blocked.

Famine is spreading fast across Sudan and desperate families face a daily struggle to get food as young children starve to death in cities, villages and displacement camps.

Children are now dying of hunger and Islamic Relief staff are seeing a rapid increase in the number of malnourished children in the health and nutrition centres it supports, with some children so emaciated they can barely breathe.

Many families are having to share a single meal a day – often just a couple of pieces of kisra (a thin local pancake made from sorghum), or a cup of boiled leaves.

Many farmers are displaced and others face attacks from armed groups who loot crops. Some have told Islamic Relief that it is too dangerous to access their fields to plant or harvest crops, while trucks carrying food to markets are regularly looted.

Food prices have drastically increased in the last two years – and more than doubled in many areas.

The humanitarian situation is dire, with families struggling to survive and meet their basic needs.

Despite the challenges Islamic Relief has delivered vital aid to more than 1.2 million people all over the country. But much more is needed as the violence spreads.

A new UN assessment in North Darfur shows more than half of young children are malnourished – one of the highest rates ever recorded worldwide.

More than 45% of people across Sudan – over 21 million people – are suffering acute food shortages and a recent Islamic Relief assessment in Gedaref and Darfur found 83% of families don’t have enough food.

“This war cannot be allowed to go on any longer. For 1,000 days we’ve seen our country ripped apart and civilians attacked, starved and forced from their land. We’re seeing parents go without food to try and save their malnourished children, and people eating animal fodder and leaves to survive." - Shihab Mohamed Ali, Islamic Relief’s senior programme manager in Sudan

Islamic Relief has been working in Sudan since 1984, and our teams are continuing to respond to the growing humanitarian emergency across the country.

Through our Sudan Appeal, Islamic Relief teams – many who are displaced themselves – are on the ground, providing life-saving aid and urgent assistance to communities across Sudan.