{"id":30319,"date":"2024-08-10T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30319"},"modified":"2024-08-10T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:22:56","slug":"unicef-sudans-future-depends-on-a-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/unicef-sudans-future-depends-on-a-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF: Sudan’s Future Depends on a Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNICEF Representative to Sudan Sheldon Yett today (8 Aug) said the country is experiencing a \u201cchild protection emergency,\u201d and stressed that \u201cthe future of Sudan depends on a ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with UN News from Port Sudan, Yett said the famine declaration in Camp Zamzam in northern Darfur by the Famine Review Committee (FRC) \u201cis no small thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cthis is only the third time in some 20 years that this level of acute food insecurity has been declared. It means that children are desperate. It means that inhabitants are desperate. It means that we have an extremely alarming situation on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UNICEF official said Zamzam Camp is just \u201ca canary in a coal mine,\u201d and \u201cthe indication of terrible things that are happening there, terrible food insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said UNICEF is \u201cbringing in supplies for severe acute malnutrition\u201d and \u201censuring that they’re getting to where they need to go,\u201d which is \u201cextremely, extremely difficult to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yett said, \u201cthe war is ongoing There are access constraints. It is difficult to get a truck in. There are constantly new permits, bandits on the road, shooting, insecurity, extremely, extremely difficult. And unless we have peace, unless we have ceasefires, unless we’ve got agreements for safe access, I expect the situation to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cwe’re working every possible angle. And we’re constantly in touch with all parties to ensure that food can go through. It isn’t easy. It takes constant work. Food is going, but not enough. It’s clear that far more work needs to be done. And frankly, unless we have security, it’s hard to see how we’re going to get the quantities that are required to this population.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Agencies\u00a0 UNICEF Representative to Sudan Sheldon Yett today (8 Aug) said the country is experiencing a \u201cchild protection emergency,\u201d and stressed that \u201cthe future of Sudan depends on a ceasefire.\u201d In an interview with UN News from Port Sudan, Yett said the famine declaration in Camp Zamzam in northern Darfur by the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30321,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions\/30321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}