German charities warn of increases of 70-80% in the costs of essentials in wartorn Sudan amid the unrest in the Middle East. Donors gather in Berlin on Wednesday on the third anniversary of the outbreak of the war.
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Aid officials gathered in Berlin for a conference on Sudan on Tuesday warned that the war in Iran and the wider Middle East has put even greater strain on the supply of food and fuel, three years into the African country's civil war. Prices for food and fuel are rising rapidly, and the country is also dependent on the Gulf region for deliveries of fertilizer, posing longer-term threats to harvests. Some 19 million people in Sudan are already at risk of acute hunger amid an entrenched internal conflict that has displaced more than 11 million people and has effectively split the country in two. Sudan’s Civil War — the limits of humanitarian aid How is conflict in the Middle East affecting wartorn Sudan? Senior officials from the German food aid organization Welthungerhilfe and the UN's World Food Program (WFP) told reporters in Berlin that the Iran war was having "dramatic consequences" for the costs of various essentials. "Our teams in Sudan report massive price rises," ...