Omdurman, Sudan . Hunger everywhere in destroyed by war Sudan. While the poorest of the poor, including hundreds of thousands of people who are trapped in the war zones, are hungry, the kitchen soups even arose through the streets in the center of cities such as omduur, where two million people live.
The professionals who were conducted were lined up for power materials. Was full of middle -class erosion.
CBS News met with Mohammed Hamad in one of the lines. He is an electric engineer and once engaged in a profitable business. But, like many others in Sudan, he found that a bushy civil war meant that there was no work and no profit.
The country's economy collapsed, and Hamad said he could not provide his family.
“We look forward to God and help,” he told us.
Now he remains largely from God.
The soup kitchen provides one small food per day for Hamad and his wife and four children. His dependence on charity is a source of deep pain for him.
“It breaks my heart. I can't provide food or even medication when they are sick. Sometimes we make our own medicines from the ingredients we have at home,” he said.
When we met, Hamad's wife had a lung infection, and he said he couldn't even afford transportation to deliver her to the hospital.
Many of the soup, scattered in Sudan's urban areas, were funded by almost 80% of them quickly after suspension of US Trump's president.
The kitchen for the soup also served a few hospitals still in Omdurmena, including al -no, which is the largest OMDurman hospital that continues to function during the war. This is approximately 12 miles from the front line in the capital of Khartoum.
There is no funds in the facility to ensure nutrition. When we visited the hospital, the kitchen soup is managed A room for emergency response Charity was busy servicing patients with rice and lentils. It was the only food they ate this day.
The hospital is overloaded and insufficient. The rockets have been hit by almost two years of war several times. Improvised tents were created outside to cope with overflow. CBS News saw patients treated on the floor from the lack of beds.
In the midst of all this, medical staff led by Dr. Jamal Mohammada fights for the salvation of those left wounded and starving the war.
Despite financial support from the US and other donors, they have already ended everything, ranging from painkillers and dressing to rescue equipment before Mr. Trump put the storms throughout the US foreign aid.
“I do not know what the President Trump's decision is behind this decision, but I think it will increase and deepen the suffering of our people,” he told us. “We are a forgotten war.”
Former US Ambassador to African Union Jesse Lapen told CBS News what is largely the US support in countries such as Sudan who has long come primarily through USAIDwas “face of American values. This is the earthly game of our foreign policy.”
She said she was worried that a sharp and sudden exit of help, even if it turns out to be temporary, would have great consequences.
“I am afraid we see that there will be a lack of respect for the US, undermining the US interests and, of course, a real negative impact on land for African partners,” she said.
Lapen claimed that Washington had incorrect submission of USAID.
“I think now a discussion like USaid staff as if it was a charity, and as if it was a charity we can't afford. And I don't think it really is anywhere,” she said. “We know that this is perhaps 1% of the federal budget, so we can afford it. But at the same time it was not mercy. It was a much more strategic investment in US relations around the world.”
Without affiliate ties with the United States in some countries, there may be a small choice except to turn the other place to try to fill the financial void. Some may have to go to trade or sell your natural resources to meet these needs.
The United Arab Emirates, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia support both sides in the Sudanese conflict, the eyes on mineral wealth, or, in the case of Russia, Sudan's base in Port -Sudan.
Last week, the United Nations released a new appeal for extraordinary financing, looking for $ 6 billion to ease the hunger in Sudan – by 40% more than said that last year it took the world body – and calling it the worst disaster that He tried to refer.
Cindy McCain, who heads the UN World Food Program, said last weekend that the agency was working on the support of about 25 million people who were hungry in Sudan, but warning that “humanitarian services are on the border.”
“The world community must act now – it lives on it”, “” she said In a report on the social media, a few days after Sudan said, “he was now an epicenter of the greatest and most severe hungry crisis in the world.”
It is unclear who or what can help fill the gaps left by the suspension of USAID, but certainly at the CBS News Hospital, who attended, the Sudanese employees were determined to continue as soon as they can.
When we followed the Mohammad, the chief physician at the Al-Nao Hospital, he stopped in one of the crowded wards so that a 10-year-old Akram Atlan, whose leg was destroyed by shards. When it happened, he played with his friends near the river. The little boy was tearful, horrified that he would lose his leg and, I dream of becoming a football player.
But he was in good hands. Mohammad was a leading orthoped before the war. He lost everything when the conflict began – his home, his profitable private practice in Khartoum, the car and his life savings. His family fled to Egypt's security, but he stayed behind and managed the hospital for almost two years without payment. In most days, it performs three -four operations.
As the young as an apom was prepared for the operation later on this day, Mohammad told us that he never imagined that he would work on the military wounded. His previous work was focused on healing broken bones and changing people's lives for the better rather than grabbing to keep them alive.
But despite the limited resources, it still brings hope. He acted more than four hours on a small boy, repairing broken bones and removing a large piece of shards from his foot. The operation has succeeded, and in addition, it will be able to play football again.
“This is my oath,” Mohammad said, asking why he decided to stay behind in his destroyed war, without his family to support the hospital. “That's all. To save life.”
