African Union (AU) officials have described Sudan’s civil war as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and warned that it is leaving hundreds of thousands of children malnourished.

Recall that the Sudanese army has been at war since April 2023 with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a conflict that has displaced around 12 million people.

A senior AU official for child welfare, Wilson Almeida Adao, said in a separate X post that hospital admissions for malnutrition rose by 44 percent in 2024, with over 431,000 children receiving treatment.

According to the AU and the International Rescue Committee, the Sudanese army controls the east and north of the country while the RSF holds most of the stricken Darfur region, where the United Nations accused it of blocking aid.

African Union (AU) officials emphasized that only inter-Sudanese political dialogue, not the military option, can end this war.