"Both in terms of spread and the acuteness of hunger, this is the worst humanitarian hunger catastrophe that we have on the planet today," Alex Marianelli, acting country director for Sudan at the U.N.'s World Food Program, told me.
The war has collapsed local economies, disrupted harvests and impeded the flows of goods through the country. Food prices have skyrocketed, making basic staples unaffordable to many ordinary Sudanese.
Twenty years ago, we had presidents and prime ministers engaged to stop atrocities in Darfur," Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, stated, highlighting the stark contrast to today's international response.
The complexity of delivering and distributing aid in a vast country overrun by a mosaic of competing militias has been overwhelming for U.N. officials and aid organizations.
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