REFUGEES FACE HUNGER IN SOUTH SUDAN

A Swahili saying goes, 'When two bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers.' Few places reflect this as much as Sudan, where the civil war that kicked off in April between the army and paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to the world's largest internal displacement crisis.

More than 9 million people are in refugee camps in Sudan. Approximately 1.7 million people have fled to neighbouring countries, like Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia and the Central African Republic.

The more than 500,000 Sudanese that have flooded South Sudan now make up 35 per cent of those in South Sudan facing catastrophic levels of hunger.

Sudan has been in turmoil since 2019 when President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in a military coup after street uprisings. Thereafter, a military-civilian transitional council was set up. That collapsed with the civil war that broke out in April between Sudan's army and the RSF. Brokered peace talks over the past few years have failed.