"Across Khartoum, the ERRs were operating 742 kitchens and serving around 816,000 people
before Trump's executive order, but now 80% of those kitchens have closed,
according to Hajooj Kuka, an external communications officer for the Emergency Response Rooms."
been reinstated in order to allow even the most essential programs to start working again.
In Sudan, Suliman said all 40 of ERRs’ community kitchens had to close in Darfur’s Zamzam camp,
where more than 1 million displaced people have sought refuge
from the conflict between the country’s two main warring powers — the Sudanese Armed Forces controlled by the country’s top commander and de facto ruler, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan,
and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia,
led by his former deputy, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-usaid-cuts-sudan-famine-civil-war-rcna191389
For a country ravaged by two years of brutal civil war and with over
30 million people — or more than half of the population —
in need of humanitarian assistance,
President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid
could not have come at a worse time for Sudan."
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"In a country riven by ethnic and political divisions, the ERRs have espoused neutrality and solidarity, allowing them to operate in areas controlled by SAF as well as the RSF, leveraging local know-how to navigate hostile terrain.
The kitchens are organized locally and entirely volunteer-led, Kuka said, adding the whole ERR system was run by housewives, doctors, engineers, electricians — “just everybody.”"
"Without immediate funding, famine could take hold in the city, he added.
Because USAID was often distributing money through other nongovernmental organizations working in Sudan,
Kuka said the ERR organizers weren’t always aware of how crucial USAID was to their funding, until the money was taken away"
Across Sudan, the cost of operating the kitchens was around
$20 million a year, the ERR communications officer said."
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The foreign ministry of the army-backed government said 433 people, including children, had been killed in the attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The attack on the White Nile state villages of al-Kadaris and al-Khelwat, 100km (60 miles) south of the capital, sent thousands fleeing, witnesses said.
A spokesperson for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the world body had received “horrifying reports that dozens of women were raped and hundreds of families were forced to flee”
The RSF also stands accused of genocide by the US for allegedly targeting non-Arab minorities in the Darfur region of western Sudan with summary executions and systematic sexual violence.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted more than 12 million
and has created what the International Rescue Committee has called the
“biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded”
"The UN’s children’s agency said children in Khartoum were trapped in “a living nightmare” of indiscriminate shooting, looting and forced displacement.
Unicef said it had also received alarming reports of families being separated, with children abducted and subjected to sexual violence"
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"RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias used by the Sudanese Government
in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency
during the War in Darfur. RSF was officially formed in 2013"
"RSF is headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ("Hemedti"), who has been its leader since it was created in 2013 or 2014
According to Reuters, as of 2023, the force numbers 100,000 people"
"In addition to its role in Darfur, RSF is deployed to patrol the border with Libya and round up Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees
in response to the Khartoum process, which is an initiative between European and African states, including Sudan,
to stem the flow of migrants to Europe"
"In November 2017, Hemedti used RSF to take over control of gold mines in the Darfur region,
which led to him becoming one of the richest people in Sudan by 2019"
"RSF has two front companies called GSK, a Sudanese technology company, and Tradive General Trading LLC, a United Arab Emirates-based company, both controlled by Hemedti's brother Algoney Hamdan Dagalo.
In April 2023, Al Jazeera reported that RSF had sought out Western public relations firms to burnish its image, including by editing Wikipedia pages"
During the War in Darfur, in 2014 and 2015, RSF repeatedly attacked villages, burned and looted homes, beating, raping and executing villagers,
aided by air and ground support from the Sudanese Armed Forces
According to a report by Al Araby TV, there are allegations of a connection between the Wagner Group,
a Russian paramilitary organization, and Hemedti.
Leaked documents and sources reportedly indicate that the Wagner Group has provided training and equipment, including armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, to Hemedti's forces
Both Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had ties to the Putin regime in Russia. According to Business Insider, The two generals helped
Russian President Vladimir Putin exploit Sudan's gold resources
to help buttress Russian finances against Western sanction
s and
fund his war in Ukraine"
starve the nation
steal the gold, trump putin
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