Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say

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sovietarmyfan@reddit

Sudan has a population of around 52 million people. Their northern neighbor around 116 million. The population of many nations in Africa is ever growing. Therefore the need for food aid will undoubtedly grow and grow in the next coming years.

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jalepinocheezit@reddit

Infilstructure. They need access to sustainable infrastructure. Food aid while it build, build it to end food aid

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BufferUnderpants@reddit

The article is scant on details as to why aid isn't being directed to victims of this famine, save for there being a generalized budget shortage for aid. Is it too generally violent for aid groups to distribute food? It says that women can't physically approach markets due to risk of rape.

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Status_Winter@reddit

I believe one of the main reasons driving this shortage is the cancelling of USAID by Trump (or by Elon Musks DOGE not sure). They were the largest donor to the Sudan response ($2 billion from 2023 to 2025). That money would go very far in addressing this problem

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The_Vee_@reddit

No. It is not because of USAID. It is because of a massive, ongoing civil war that destroyed farms, markets, and roads. The food physically can not get to people.

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Status_Winter@reddit

You might know better than me, but the impression I got from reading about this is that Sudan was extremely dependent on USAID. After the aid was cancelled they were forced to close the majority of the countries emergency food kitchens in the middle of the world’s worst hunger crisis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

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The_Vee_@reddit

I'm not denying it may have worsened the suffering for some people, but it wasn't the cause.

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Best_Change4155@reddit

Ireland is giving more aid to Palestine than Sudan.

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Status_Winter@reddit

And?

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Successful-Bobcat701@reddit

They should be giving more to Sudan.

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Status_Winter@reddit

I never mentioned Ireland but I guess it couldn’t hurt if they donated more to Sudan.

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SpinningHead@reddit

Yep. The projections for death of what Elmo and Trump did without authority is in the hundreds of thousands at least.

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Amadon29@reddit

Yeah, there's an ongoing civil war and genocide. It's similar to Yemen. There's just not much people on the outside can do aside from maybe military support for one side or the other. It's too dangerous for people to give humanitarian aid

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Express-Hovercraft96@reddit

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placebo_pope@reddit

International NGOs largely abandoned Sudan due to security issues, so most aid is distributed via local orgs who are grassroots/community funded. They depend on donations and while individual donations are very helpful, they need funding.

But it is difficult to get funding when charity designations depend on paperwork that is difficult to obtain in a war zone. Sudan is also being sanctioned by the west despite this devastation, which causes additional issues with getting funds in. Applications like GoFundMe regularly close fundraisers and retain the $ without explanation, basically looting the humanitarian workers trying to assist.

Then bringing food in and reaching areas becomes difficult and dangerous. Aid workers have been executed by the RSF and associated militias. Civilians trying to break sieges have been executed.

It’s a lot. We need people to care.

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Gravelayer@reddit

Is this a new or old issue ?

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mesmerooo@reddit

breeding like rabbits it's the issue

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ups-syndrome@reddit

Yet somehow their population has grown from 6 million in 1950 to 50 million today. If you want and industrial sized population, you need the industry to support it

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Amadon29@reddit

There's kind of a war and genocide going on. Pretty hard to do anything

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Thatsidechara_ter@reddit

Wtf kind of absolute reddit-brain is this BS "it's your fault for having more kids" JFC

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ups-syndrome@reddit

Is it's Sudan's responsibility to be able to feed their expanding population, or the rest of the worlds responsibility?

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Thatsidechara_ter@reddit

My guy, almost every fucking country on Earth relies on food imports to some extent. Population growth is not the problem hear LMFAO. How is this even a legit opinion😭

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ups-syndrome@reddit

This like reading that Antarctica is struggling to support 50 million people. Maybe some areas are not supposed to carry these populations. Let alone double the current population they can't support.

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AsWeKnowItAndI@reddit

Don't you fret, I see you refusing to address the civil war element at work here, lil' coward that you are.

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Trollimperator@reddit

The current crisis is due to the civil war, not due to population growth. Just like middle europe had famines during WWI and WWII, even throught they were able to support thier population growth before.

Another point is, that Sudan might had 6million population. But they also were still united with south sudan. A highly fertile land in Africas rainzone. So your comment is somewhat ignorant.

The reason this land is to this day is widely underdeveloped, is because of restrictive access to international markets, corruption, low productivity and oppressive foreign influence. The land, as many others in Africa, grew dependent to european, russian/ukrainian and american food imports, which are highly subsidized by thier own market. Cutting aid in such level of crisis on a population, which was made dependent by shear market power is quite rude. Africas problem never was, that they were poor. The problem was, that thier werent as rich as Europe and the other Superpowers of thier time.

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