Photo: Fazi Abubakr | The New Humanitarian
Communal kitchens are assisting hundreds of thousands in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum, providing meals and social and emotional support amid a deepening famine. Run by neighborhood-based mutual aid groups called emergency response rooms, the kitchens are struggling with crippling funding gaps, security threats, and communications and electricity blackouts that mean many only offer one meal per day. Sudan’s war, which pits the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces against the regular army, has uprooted nearly 10 million people. The kitchens run regular funding campaigns, but have received only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that international donors have provided to humanitarian actors in Sudan. With more resources, they would be able to set up local markets and bakeries across the region.
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