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Ahmed Ali has four children being treated for malnourishment in small clinic funded by the Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SHF) in Kassala. Recurrent droughts in the region and the economic crisis are hampering his capacity to put food on the table for his family.

Kassala: Life with hard choices

Eastern Sudan has high humanitarian needs particularly in nutrition, health and protection—mainly child protection and gender-based violence (GBV). Factors behind these needs include economic shocks and long standing under development, which are likely to increasing malnutrition rates in 2020.

Kassala State has the highest levels of food insecurity in eastern Sudan—El Gezira, Gedaref, Kassala, Red Sea, and Sennar states—with more than 400,000 people at crisis levels and 13 per cent of the rural communities have access to safe water. Outbreaks of communicable diseases such as dengue are proliferating. There are acute shortages of basic medicines and health services across the country.

In 2020, at least 9.3 million people in Sudan—nearly a quarter of the population—need humanitarian assistance, up from some 8.5 million in 2019. More people need help because of the economic crisis, which has driven up food prices. It has also disrupted essential services such as health care in all states in eastern Sudan, as well as urban centres such as Khartoum.

For more information on what is happening in Kassala State go to the exposure story Kassala, Sudan: Life with hard choices.

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