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STORY: WFP / SUDAN FOOD NUTRITION DISTRIBUTION
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SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23-29 APRIL 2025, DARFUR / KHARTOUM, SUDAN AND KENYA
23 APRIL 2025, TAWILA
1.Various shots, Tawila Camp in Darfur
Around 450,000 people who were already facing famine and enduring horrific levels of violence have been forced to flee from El Fasher and Zamzam camps in the last few weeks. In Tawila, 300,000 people have arrived in the last week alone.
27 APRIL 2025, TAWILA
2.Various shots, Tawila Camp
29 APRIL 2025, TAWILA
3.Various shots, Tawila Camp
27 APRIL 2025, TAWILA
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asia Mohammed Bahr Aldain Husain, 55 years old, displaced numerous times with her children due to the fighting-most recently from ZamZam Camp:
“We send our children to chase after the trucks distributing food, just so we can have something to eat. We don’t even have access to clean water or basic sleeping materials like mats or mattresses. They stole our seven of our donkeys. We’re in a dire situation—especially with the children.”
5. Various shots, WFP Food Trucks Arriving in Tawila Camp from Chad
The upcoming rainy season can make convoys like this coming from Chad extremely dificult as roads become impassible. WFP has been mobilizing assistance to reach people across different parts of Darfur and Northern State. Last month, 270,000 people in El Fasher and Zamzam received assistance from WFP. This is the first aid that has arrived in Tawila.
28 APRIL 2025, TAWILA
5. Various shots, unloading WFP Food
29 APRIL 2025, NAIROBI
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hughes, WFP Sudan Regional Emergency Coordinator:
“More than 400,000 people have fled from Zamzam Camp in recent days. Many have arrived in Tawila where a WFP convoy of trucks has also arrived with food to assist more than 200,000 people. There are more trucks en route including to El-Fasher itself and in recent weeks we've also scaled up assistance in Khartoum in the capital in areas which have been inaccessible due to fighting for months.”
10 APRIL 2025, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
7. Wide shot, Wartorn Downtown Khartoum
Two years of war has turned Sudan into the world’s largest hunger catastrophe and famine is spreading.Nearly half the population – 24.6 million people – faces acute hunger. Some 638,000 people face catastrophic hunger (IPC5) – the highest number globally.
12 APRIL 2025, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
8. Various shots, Wartorn Downtown Khartoum
18 APRIL 2025, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
9. Wide shot, damage due to fighting in Omdurman area of Khartoum
10. Various shots, children being tested for malnutrition in Omdurman area of Khartoum
Famine is confirmed in 10 locations in Sudan- eight in North Darfur (including Zamzam Camp) and two in the Western Nuba Mountains. Another 17 areas - including areas of North, South and East Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, Khartoum, and Gezira - are at risk of famine. In the hardest-hit areas, one in three children are acutely malnourished, surpassing famine thresholds.
29 APRIL 2025, NAIROBI
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hughes, WFP Sudan Regional Emergency Coordinator:
“The rainy season is just around the corner and we're in a race against time to pre-position food in areas that will be cut off when the rains come. During the rains last year we saw a major surge in hunger and in disease outbreaks. At the moment we're reaching four million people but we need to scale that up to reach at least seven million people in the coming months. In order to do that we need more funding otherwise we'll be cutting support at the very time when we need to be scaling up.”
19 APRIL 2025, JABAL AWLIA
12. Various shots, WFP Food Convoy Arrving in Jabal Awlia
WFP food distributions for 100,00 people have just started in Jabal Awlia, an area south of Khartoum that is at high risk of famine. These trucks arrived last week and are the first aid deliveries into Jabal Awlia since last December 2024.
28 APRIL 2025, ALAZHARI, KHARTOUM
13. Various shots, WFP Food Distribution
These are the first distributions in Alazhari neighborhood, south Khartoum since the beginning of the conflict two years ago. This has been a famine risk area and only recently been accessible by WFP.
The World Food Programme (WFP) reports that food and nutrition distributions for over 220,000 people have started in Tawila, North Darfur – where hundreds of thousands are seeking refuge from horrific violence in and around El Fasher and Zamzam IDP Camp.
The WFP aid deliveries to the center of Khartoum have arrived-the first distributions within the downtown area of Khartoum since the conflict started two years ago.
Distributions have also started in Alazhari neighboorhood in south Khartoum for 20,000 people – one of the areas at high risk of famine. These efforts are part of WFP’s scale up to to support 1 million people across all seven localities in greater Khartoum over the coming month.
WFP is also ramping up assistance to people who have recently fled horrific violence in El Fasher or Zamzam Camp. The first aid convoys with 1,600 metric tonnes of food and nutrition supplies for 220,000 people are arriving in Tawila, where over 300,000 people fled to. Additional aid is being mobilized as numbers of displaced continue to climb
WFP warns that the upcoming rainy season and funding shortfalls could threaten recent progress in turning the tide of famine – at a time when the aid agency urgently needs to be scaling up to pre-stock food before roads become flooded and impassable, and ahead of the lean season when hunger is expected to surge.
Currently, WFP reports reaching 4 million people a month and is pushing to expand this to 7 million a month, which is still only a fraction of the total need. Most concerning is that the aid agency may face pipeline breaks in the coming months that could force reduction/cuts to assistance unless urgent funding is received.
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