Two years of brutal civil war and more than 30 million people-or more than half of the population-to-human aid were destroyed, 90 days for President Donald Trump’s foreign aid for 90 days for Sudan. I could come .
With the anger of the battles in the North African country, a network of communal kitchen had to stop most of its work immediately due to lack of funds, about 75 % of the US Agency for International Development ( USAID came from. Administrative
A section of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (Irus) with the help of humanity, led by citizens, low-level effort-to-accessed aid agencies to provide people with food, medicine and other basic equipment in some parts of the country. Has been successful
The Coordinator of the Airus in the West Darfur region of Sudan, Abuzar Usman Suleiman, told NBC News on Friday that without US funding, “many people would die of hunger.”
Solomon, who said that for the same kitchen in Darfur, 250 families would cost $ 10,000 to feed for two weeks, people were given a 10 to 20 days window to start dying.
Trump signed an executive order on January 20 Freezing foreign aidForcing US financial aid and development programs around the world to close and leave staff.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio said he has tried to reduce the loss by issuing exemptions for emergency food aid and “life -saving” programs, but says USAID officials and relief groups say That neither the financing nor the staff has been restored nor the staff has been restored. Extremely essential programs to resume work.
In Sudan, Suleiman said that all the 40 community kitchens in Irus had to be locked up in the Zamzam camp in Darfur, where more than one million displaced people have sought refuge in the dispute between the two major militant forces in the country. Commander and De Facto ruler, General Abdul Fattah Burhan, and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, led by his former deputy, General Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo.
Once after the allies, the two men were part of the military establishment that seized power in 2021 after the collapse of the Western -backed government, Abdullah Hamdok. But although he agreed to rule together, his alliance was surprisingly broken by the method of managing the transition. To a civilian government. With no ready to stop power, the war began in April 2023.
Due to fierce fighting in the surrounding area and the ongoing siege of the RSF, UN agencies have failed to receive plenty of food assistance at the Zamzam camp and the camps were announced in August, integrated. According to the Food Security Analysis, the phase rating (IPC), an international system that determines the measure used by the United Nations and governments. So Solomon said, so people are now facing choices between being in the camp to die due to hunger, or are taking the risk of their lives through the RSF siege areas.
According to the IPC, the famine has then spread to four other areas of Sudan, and it is expected that the war will be deepened and spread in the coming months and hindering access to humanitarian aid.
In the Sudan capital, in Khartoum, the fierce battle of the block by block has made it almost impossible to provide aid.
The World Food Program said it only managed to deliver its first shipment in December 17 months after the conflict exploded, and nevertheless, he said it had to rely on the mistake for division.
Across the Khartoum, Irs were operating 742 kitchens and were serving nearly 816,000 people before Trump’s executive order, but now 80 % of these kitchens are closed, external communication officers of emergency response rooms. According to Coca.
In a country developed by ethnic and political divisions, errors have supported neutrality and solidarity, which allows them to work in SAF as well as RSF as well as RSF -controlled areas, from which Local information is the benefit of visiting the region.
Coca said that the kitchen was organized locally and fully voluntarily, adding that the whole wrong system was operated by women, doctors, engineers, engineers, electricity, “just every”.
“In this minute, I am trying to save the lives of people from district and volunteers,” he said in an interview on Friday. “I’m just going crazy, trying to get money.”
He added that the famine could be caught in the city without immediate financial support.
Since USAID often distributed money through other non -governmental organizations operating in Sudan, Coca said that the wrong administrators were not always aware that until the money was snatched, their financing support. How important is it.
On Friday, Coca said he found that he found that he had canceled a grant of 000 50,000, expecting a Catholic Relief Services (CRS) based in Baltimore, due to a sudden frozen US.
The humanitarian agency told NBC News that they could not comment on the grant’s cancellation.
The CRS, which has about 5,000 5,000 employees, told staff last week to expect holiday due to a reduction in the administration’s foreign aid grant. To Reuters. The organization has a budget of $ 1.5 billion, half of it is funded by USAID.
In Sudan, the cost of running the kitchen was $ 20 million a year, the air communication officer said. Coca added that there is also a local, ad hoc nature of work that made them such a risk of cutting in US funding.
Although UN agencies may have several months in the pipeline, errors often rely on buying goods directly from local markets. So when the cash flow was cut off, the kitchen could no longer buy food and make food.
Former USAID official and country representative in Sudan, Andrea Tracy, said that the waiver issued by Secretary Rubio is “very complicated, no one really knows how it works.”
Tracy, who is currently the vice president of a non -profit -profit work to provide financial support for Sudan’s mistakes, added that if any exemption has been given, some agencies continue operations. Can be large enough to keep. Small organizations cannot do so.
On Friday, a federal judge stopped the order to put USAID staff on an administrative leave, but Tracy said it was not yet clear what capacity the agency would be able to operate.
“They have a week where they are able to work again – access to emails, etc. – but before what they could do, what they could do, not so obvious There was how much they could do as paying. “
Coca said he was also appealing to any other company donors to fill the funding gap, in which he used what he left to support emergency aid programs.
“After a month, it will happen completely,” he said.
