“People will die because of these decisions,“ said a Sudanese fundraising volunteer, who has been scrambling to find money to feed tens of thousands of people in the capital Khartoum.
“Women and children are being turned away and we can’t promise them when we can feed them again,“ she said, requesting anonymity for fear that speaking publicly could jeopardise her work.
In addition to killing tens of thousands of people and uprooting over 12 million, the war has pushed five areas of the country into famine and nearly 25 million people into acute food insecurity.
“The impact of the decision to withdraw funding in this abrupt manner has life-ending consequences,“ Javid Abdelmoneim, medical team leader at Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, told AFP.
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His administration then issued waivers for “life-saving humanitarian assistance”, but there have so far been no signs of this taking effect in Sudan and aid workers said their efforts were already crippled.
“All official communications have gone dark,“ another Sudanese aid coordinator told AFP, after USAID workers were put on leave this week.
“But there’s just not enough to go around.”
However, “MSF can’t fill the gap left by the US funding withdrawal,“ Abdelmoneim said.
The UN estimates it currently has less than 6 percent of the humanitarian funding needed for Sudan in 2025.
Famine is expected to spread to at least five more areas of Sudan by May, before the upcoming rainy season is likely to make access to food all the more difficult across the country.
The hunger crisis is already much worse than figures show, according to the UN, with a lack of access to data preventing official famine declarations including in Khartoum.
In tandem with Trump's decisions, the US-funded early warning system for famines, FEWS Net, has also gone offline. That has raised fears that simply tracking the rapidly worsening famine in Sudan will be made harder.
According to several volunteers, aid agencies had already distributed millions of dollars worth of food, healthcare and shelter assistance -- based on US funding pledges -- when Trump cut operations.
“The fear is what’s coming next. They have the money now, but what about next month? How many will go hungry then?”
“It was already not enough, but at least people were getting something,“ the soup kitchen fundraiser told AFP.
“Now things are going from bad to worse. People are malnourished, pregnant women are dying for lack of healthcare, there’s no semblance of life anymore.”
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