Starvation In the Sudan

[Annie]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1438471,00.html

180,000 die from hunger in Darfur

Deadlock on sanctions as UN reveals toll from starvation and disease

Jeevan Vasagar in Nairobi and Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday March 16, 2005
The Guardian

More than 180,000 people have died from hunger and disease during the last 18 months of the Darfur conflict, the United Nations said yesterday, as negotiations continued at its New York headquarters to break the deadlock on a new security council resolution to impose sanctions on the Sudanese government.
Brian Grogan, a spokesman for Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said an average 10,000 Sudanese civilians were dying a month, much higher than earlier estimates. They were victims mainly of starvation or of disease in refugee camps after being driven from their villages by Sudanese soldiers and government-backed Janjaweed militiamen. The estimates exclude those killed in the fighting.

Khartoum accused the UN of producing the figures as a ploy to get the security council to take action against Sudan, and demanded evidence to back up the numbers.

The Sudanese foreign minister, Mustafa Osman Ismail, said: "Jan Egeland was here - I met him [and] he never mentioned this number."

Mr Egeland said last week that an estimate of 70,000 was too low but did not indicate what he regarded as a more realistic figure.

Nearly a year after the UN described Darfur as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, there is no sign the scorched-earth campaign against black African villages is over...

 

[j07950]

All this while the Sudanese government spends the profits from it's oil industry to buy weapons from China!!!
An interesting fact: Dafur is roughly the size of France but only has 170km of paved roads, and there is only one doctor per 150,000 people...
I say put an arms embargo on Sudan and I don't know, pressure the government in spending a % of it's oil profits on Humanitarian aid for the people in Dafur and for the refugees that have fled to Tchad and other neighboring countries...

 

[dilloduck]

I don't think that anyone who has the power to do anything cares enough.
Old story and no action.

 

[j07950]

I don't think that anyone who has the power to do anything cares enough.
Old story and no action.

Totally agree...it's been the same thing all over Africa really...there is nothing interesting enough, and the little Sudan has (oil) the Russians have contracts for...

 

[waltky]

Cholera outbreak in Sudan...

Sudanese Doctors Urge Measures Against Cholera Outbreak
July 02, 2017 - Sudanese doctors and aid workers are urging the government to declare a state of emergency over a cholera outbreak and delay the start of the school year, which began Sunday.

The disease, which is passed through contaminated water, has surfaced in five states, including the capital, Khartoum. The U.S. Embassy said last month that fatalities had been confirmed, and Egypt has begun screening passengers from Sudan at Cairo's international airport. Some 22,000 cases of acute watery diarrhea have led to at least 700 fatalities since May 20, said Hossam al-Amin al-Badawi, of the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, adding that it is most likely cholera, but the government refuses to test for it.

A South Sudanese child suffering from cholera sits on a bed in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba​

Doctors say cholera, a bacterial infection linked to contaminated food or water, has surfaced in the states of Khartoum, Al-Jazeera, Sennar, White Nile and North Kordofan, and are urging the government to seek international aid. The fast-developing, highly contagious infection can spread in areas without clean drinking water or with poor sanitation. If left untreated, it can cause death from dehydration. Sudan's official news agency SUNA meanwhile announced the opening of the school year, saying that authorities had the outbreak of "acute watery diarrhea" under control.

Activists and the opposition say President Omar al-Bashir's government refuses to acknowledge the cholera outbreak because it would reveal failures in the country's crumbling health system, where corruption is rife. Neighboring South Sudan is grappling with the "the longest, most widespread and most deadly cholera outbreak" since the it won independence in 2011, according to the U.N. Since the outbreak began a year ago, over 11,000 cases have been reported, including at least 190 deaths, according to the World Health Organization and South Sudan's government.

Sudanese Doctors Urge Measures Against Cholera Outbreak