The civil war of Sudan starring thousands of children. Relief workers say Trump’s help may cost more lives.

Omdurman, Sudan – It is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, but perhaps the one you heard is less. It is fed up with nearly two years of the civil war, Sudan in the grip of a Familiarity with man -made.

More than 25 million people are starving – more than half of the population of the African nation – including 3.2 million children under the age of five who suffer from acute malnutrition.

Despite those horrific characters, the brutal struggle of Sudan is often called “forgotten war”. It has rushed in the shadows of other global conflicts, including wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Relief organizations were already fighting to address the country’s destructive hunger crisis, and these organizations warn of President Trump’s suspension for 90 days about US foreign aid now by turning the Sudanese catastrophe into a comprehensive catastrophe.

For a moment in 2019, it seemed as if a new era was dawn. It knocked on a famous civil resistance Former Sudanese dictator Omar Al -Bashaer. But instead of a new civilian government, competitors, Mohamed Dagoglu, leader of the semi -military high support forces, and the commander of the Sudanese army, General Abdul Fata Al -Buran, joined the forces amid chaos and seized power in a military coup.

Under their cooperation agreement, they had to hand over power to a new elected civil administration within two years. But this never happened. Instead, in 2023, they had a fall and The country fell into the brutal civil war That has rushed since then.

The United States government has imposed both leaders, Accusing RSF Daglo from genocide Borhan and the army of other war crimes.

Inside despair caused by the civil war of Sudan

It took nearly two years from the CBS News team to obtain the visas required to enter Sudan. Once we entered, we had to drive 12-14 hours a day on some occasions to reach areas near the front lines, passing by dozens of checkpoints on the road.

At every road barrier, the armed forces demanded copies of our permits, passports and visas – we have printed more than 100 copies of each member of the team, and we still have to print more.

Some of the most intense fighting are now in places such as Al -Jazra, Al -Khar and Darfur. Getting there is impossible, but what we found near the front lines was very sad.

In one of the many tents camps where thousands of families displaced to shelter sought the shelter, we saw a newly arrived child in a critical state of hunger. We went out with UNICEF volunteers while monitoring the condition of children under the age of three. Everyone saw him suffering from severe malnutrition, which means without interference, they were at risk of death.

The worst cases are in the hospital, and its small bodies are simply lost. We have seen children fighting to breathe alone, and some of them dried were very weak in crying.

At the Polok Children’s Hospital in Omndorman, just 12 miles of fighting in the capital, Khartoum, we met Dr. Muhammad Fadalala. Cinemeni citizen is located in Sudan as a volunteer with doctors without charitable borders.

“I think we are in terrible straps here in Sudan,” he told CBS News.

When we arrived, it was a sign of a medical team who just admitted to Ben Ibrahim Jaafar, who was 13 months old. The doctors said that the young boy was close to death and that his eyesight was severely damaged.

“Severe acute malnutrition occurs over time,” explained, indicated. “The place where children do not get enough nutrients … they are unable to fight infections such as usual. They are unable to benefit from nutrition like usual … and the majority of children with severe severe malnutrition in the end On infection and death from it “

The Ibrahim family was besieged by fighting in Al -Jazeera for several months.

“There was no food,” his grandmother, Nemat Abuker, told us. “Sometimes nothing at all, not even water.”

She wants the war to end very much. At some point, crying collapsed, worried that they were left too late to flee violence to save her grandson. It was a fear that every father shares the emergency wing.

Doctors and nutritionists told us the same thing: without humanitarian help and medical intervention, the children we saw in this wing will not be alive.

Many of this aid came UsaidUS government aid program for decades Trump is frozen. As of September 2024, The Biden administration said It has committed more than two billion dollars to respond to emergency situations in Sudan, including a new promise of $ 424 million of new humanitarian assistance – 276 million dollars were sent through the United States Agency for International Development.

America has also always been the biggest fun for the United Nations World Food Program. CBS News visited a warehouse from the WFP program in Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast in the country, and I saw it stacked with tens of thousands of fine corn bags, a type of grain. Many of them have been paid by the United States

The grain bags collected dust for more than a month while fought the World Food Program at a bureaucracy of a priest, pending permission to transfer them to those in need in a desperate manner.

While the war princes burned the country on the ground, everything was armed, who Sexual violenceTo food. Both sides of the conflict often prevented food aid from reaching millions of hungry Sudanese.

As if it was not really difficult enough, Leni Kenzli, the head of communications on the CBS News, told the 90 -day external aid to President Trump may prove a catastrophic of Sudan.

She said, “Time to decline funding is not now.” “It is time to increase funding.”

In response to a question about whether the population of Sudan can wait for a period of 90 days, Kinsley said, “Every delay means that the souls are lost.”

She said: “We are very worried that when we finally enter these places on the scale we need, it will be too late, and we will take bodies instead of feeding them,” she said.

We went back to see the child Ibrahim after a day. His condition has deteriorated, but doctors did not surrender – determined to ensure that, at least for this young boy, he will not be too late.