United Nations, February 19 (RHC)-- In Sudan, reports have emerged of over 200 people killed, including women and children, after a three-day brutal assault by Rapid Support Forces on villages in the southern White Nile state. 

Doctors Without Borders is warning hundreds of thousands of people could die in Sudan from famine after the Trump administration froze foreign aid.
 The aid cutoff forced the shutdown of critical community kitchens across Sudan.

Meanwhile, U.N. officials on Monday said some $6 billion is needed to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, which human rights experts have described as the world’s worst-ever hunger catastrophe.  A fifth of Sudan’s population has been mass displaced following 22 months of war.

Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told reporters:  “Because this is a humanitarian crisis that is truly unprecedented in its scale and gravity, and it demands a response unprecedented in scale and intent.  It’s a crisis that is increasingly crossing Sudan’s borders, threatening to destabilize neighbors in ways that risk being felt for generations to come.”