Urgent Call to Declare a State of Emergency and Health Disaster By Yasir Arman
We call on the authorities in Port Sudan and in Khartoum State to declare Khartoum State, White Nile State, Al Jazirah State, and North Kordofan as areas of health disasters, and to declare a health state of emergency. We urge them to notify the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF to activate emergency response protocols, send medicines and equipment, assess the health situation and its causes, support hospitals and health centers, and request urgent humanitarian aid from the regional and international communities.
We demand both warring parties to declare a humanitarian ceasefire, even for one week, to allow the delivery of food and medicine—especially to the towns and villages of North Kordofan, notably El-Obeid, Al-Khuwei, An-Nuhud, Dilling, Kadugli, and Debeibat—and to open corridors toward the city of El Fasher for sending aid to those in need in this historic city.
Relief more important than war. The epidemics—chief among them cholera, which has claimed the lives of more than 1,700 people in Khartoum State alone—are deadlier than the war. It is a lethal weapon alongside the weapons of war, targeting innocent civilians while the authorities have yet to even issue a comprehensive statement clarifying the situation, its causes, or their plan of action.
Sudanese people abroad must reject the disregard for and devaluation of the lives of their fellow citizens, whose lives have become expendable and meaningless.
#Relief_Before_Politics
#No_to_April_War
#Yes_to_December_Revolution
27 May 2025
