{"id":20059031,"date":"2023-11-12T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20059031"},"modified":"2024-01-14T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T15:27:58","slug":"ocha-sudan-crisis-is-verging-on-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/ocha-sudan-crisis-is-verging-on-pure-evil","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Sudan crisis is \u2018verging on pure evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) Clementine Nkweta-Salami, provided updates on the war in Sudan, declaring it \u201ca humanitarian tragedy that only grows bleaker by the day,\u201d during her briefing in New York on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her opening remarks<\/a> at the briefing, Nkweta-Salami explained that \u201cover half of the population \u2013 25 million people \u2013 require assistance and protection.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than six million people have fled their homes and are displaced inside Sudan or in neighbouring countries. They are not just numbers; they are individuals whose lives have been uprooted and changed forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrankly, we are running out of words to describe the horror of what is happening in Sudan,\u201d said Nkweta-Salami. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe continue to receive unrelenting and appalling reports of sexual and gender-based violence, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detentions, and grave violations of human and children\u2019s rights,\u201c she said. \u201cWhat is happening is verging on pure evil.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nkweta-Salami also touched on the issue of funding, as \u201cSudan has \u201creceived just over a third of the $2.6 billion needed for this year\u2019s humanitarian response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside funding impediments, she touched on the \u201cdaunting challenge\u201d of maintaining the world\u2019s attention, alluding to the crisis in Gaza which is garnering \u201cmuch more attention\u201d than Sudan. She maintains that the Sudan crisis has \u201cfew equals\u201d due to the \u201cscale \u201cof the crisis and its \u201cdepth of misery\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat keeps me awake at night are the faces of the people I have met in Sudan \u2013 people like you and me \u2013 who desperately want to live in peace, feed their families, get health care, and send their children to school. These are the people humanitarians are trying to reach \u2013 and we are delivering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeddah Negotiations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the Jeddah negotiations, Nkweta-Salami commented that \u201cthe Statement of Commitments adopted in Jeddah earlier in the week by the parties to the conflict in Sudan marks a moment of truth for the country. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe owe it to the people of Sudan to ensure that the promises made by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to protect civilians and provide unimpeded humanitarian access are kept.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported earlier this week<\/a> by Radio Dabanga, Suliman Baldo, executive director of the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker<\/a> (STPT), stresses the importance of the commitments of the SAF and the RSF announced by the facilitators of the Jeddah platform on Tuesday, indicating that it is not a new agreement, but rather \u201ca detail and re-expression of the pledges agreed upon in the May 11 Jeddah Declaration of Principles to Protect the Civilians of Sudan<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the new Jeddah agreement fails to reach a ceasefire, the warring parties agreed that humanitarian aid operations must continue as in similar war experiences\u201d, he said and referred to the current humanitarian operation in Gaza, and the regularity of lifeline relief operations during the war in South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pointed to the importance of the humanitarian mechanism to which the two parties committed to participate under the leadership of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan, to monitor the implementation of their commitments.<\/p>\n