Port Sudan, April 14(Darfur 24)
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has developed a prevention plan for Sudan that aims to implement rapid measures to stop the deterioration of food insecurity and livelihoods.
The plan, which will be implemented within 6 months, requires $400 million to provide aid to 7.6 million Sudanese.
The OCHA office said, in a statement obtained by Darfur 24, that the famine prevention plan depends on integrated responses led by food security, nutrition, health, water, sanitation and hygiene groups.
OCHA pointed out that the implementation of the plan is linked to extending the expansion of the emergency scope requested by the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee, which focuses on famine prevention.
The plan was drawn up to avoid the possibility of issuing an official warning of the possibility of famine in Sudan, whose 18 million people suffer from food insecurity, including 5 million people who are one step away from famine.
On Monday, France, along with Germany and the European Union, will chair a humanitarian conference to be held at the headquarters of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mobilize financial support for the Sudanese affected by the war, with the participation of Western, Arab and African countries and the United Nations.