In Sudan refugee camp, one child dying every two hours from malnutrition
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00:00 Here in the Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur, one child is dying every two hours from malnutrition,
00:07 according to Doctors Without Borders.
00:10 Ten months on since the war broke out between the country's army general and the paramilitary
00:14 rapid support forces, Sudan is grappling with record levels of food insecurity in what's
00:20 now the world's largest displacement crisis.
00:22 "I have a very sick child and the hospital is so far. It's two and a half hours away
00:29 and all the other hospitals are still closed because of the conflict. So my child is still
00:34 sick."
00:35 "We've had nothing to eat since we arrived here. We used to have food cards, but not anymore.
00:42 Now we don't have any food, we just exist."
00:46 Inside Sudan, around 25 million people - over half the population - are in dire need of
00:52 humanitarian aid. It's estimated that of those, some 18 million face crisis levels of hunger.
00:59 Doctors Without Borders has urged for the international community to mobilise, saying
01:03 that the humanitarian crisis could soon spiral into famine.
01:07 "Among children, one quarter are acutely malnourished and 7% are in a state of severe acute malnutrition.
01:14 It means that these children, if left untreated, will die within weeks. Last month, the mortality
01:22 rate measured in the Zamzam camp was 2.5 per 10,000 per day. That's almost ten times the
01:29 normal mortality rate you'd expect in a camp like this."
01:34 According to UN figures, the conflict in Sudan has killed thousands and internally displaced
01:39 over six million within the country, whilst millions more have fled to neighbouring Chad