World Food Program Diversifies Aid and Races Against Time to Deliver Food to Zamzam Camp

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The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has announced that it is racing against time to save lives in war-torn Sudan by delivering essential food supplies to 180,000 people facing famine in Zamzam Camp, North Darfur.

The aid package includes wheat flour, lentils, oil, and salt.

Leni Kinzli, WFP’s spokesperson in Sudan, said at a press conference in Geneva from Nairobi on Tuesday that the program is also supporting volunteer-run community kitchens in Khartoum, providing 175,000 hot meals daily.

Additionally, the program recently began distributing food rations to around 155,000 people in Karari and Omdurman localities, with each person receiving a two-month supply. Around 16,000 people in the urban area also received mobile cash transfers in July and August, with plans to expand this initiative to more recipients this month.

WFP has also launched pilot self-registration programs to scale up mobile cash transfers in North and South Darfur, South Kordofan, and Al Jazirah State.

However, Kinzli emphasized that these efforts are only a drop in the ocean compared to the overwhelming needs—not just in Sudan but also regionally. The ongoing war in Sudan has left 36 million people across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad facing hunger.

She called on world leaders to give this humanitarian catastrophe the attention it demands, urging for concerted diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire and ultimately end the conflict.

Kinzli added that WFP urgently needs the international community to intervene by demanding that the warring parties ensure safe, unrestricted humanitarian access, adhere to international humanitarian law, and increase funding by over 600 million in the next six months to provide critical aid to those suffering from severe hunger across the region.