ALBAWABA - Following a UN report accusing Sudan's warring parties of committing war crimes, the UN World Health Organization stated that the brutal war in the African country has killed more than 20,000 people so far.
During a visit to Port Sudan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Sudan is suffering through a storm of crises. "It saddens me that the crisis is not getting the attention it deserves by [from] the international community,".
Adhanom Ghebreyesus also called for increasing support to address the suffering of the Sudanese people in addition to providing safe aid delivery to those suffering across the country.
According to the UN's International Organization for Migration, the violence has extended to 14 of Sudan's 18 provinces, displacing almost 13 million people. 2.3 million people have been forced to escape to neighboring countries.
According to the World Food Programme, more than 25 million people suffer from acute hunger, and famine has been confirmed in a displacement camp in North Darfur that houses hundreds of thousands of people.
A recent outbreak of cholera caused by polluted water sources has killed at least 165 people in Sudan, the health ministry announced Friday.
Recently, the Sudanese authorities rejected the UN calls for the deployment of an "independent and impartial force" to provide displaced civilians across Sudan with the necessary protection, as war continues to rage through the country.
Several independent UN experts released a statement accusing Sudan's warring parties of committing severe human rights violations that could amount to war crimes.
The UN also proposed increasing the existing arms embargo in Darfur, as specified in Security Council Resolution 1556 and subsequent resolutions, to include all of Sudan.
This approach tries to reduce the supply of guns, ammunition, and other assistance to the warring sides, preventing the conflict from escalating further.
On a visit to Sudan on Sunday, the WHO chief stated: "The scale of the emergency is shocking, as is the insufficient action being taken to curtail the conflict and respond to the suffering it is causing,".
