A doctor who helps Sudan war wounded and former diplomat, they say CBS to the cost of stopping USAID stops

Omdurman, Sudan – Hunger is everywhere War torn sudan. While the poorest than the poor, including hundreds of thousands of trapped in war zones, are facing hunger, the kitchen with the soup even accelerated on the street corners in the center of cities like Omdurman, which is home to two million people.

Well-protected professionals are performed for food brochures. There was a complete middle class erosion.

The CBS news met by Mohammad Hamada in one of the lines. He is an electrical engineer and used to have a lucrative job. But as many other others in Sudan, he found that the furious civil war meant that there was no work and no income.

The economy of the earth collapsed, and Hamad said he could not provide his family.

“We rely on God and help,” he told us.

It is currently largely to God.

The kitchen for the soup provides a small meal a day for Hamad and his wife and four children. His reliance for charity is a source of deep pain for him.

“It breaks my heart. I can’t give food or even medications if they’re sick. Sometimes we make our own medicine from the ingredients we have at home,” he said.

Hamad’s wife had a lung infection when we met, and he said he could not afford or transport he entered the hospital.

Many soups are intermittent through Sudan urban areas financed us almost 80% of them, they quickly turned off after the president of the Trump’s suspension of the American side of aid.

The cuisine soups also served several hospitals that continue to stand in Omdurman, including Al No, which is the largest hospital in Omdurman who continued to function during the war. From 12 miles from the front in the capital Kametuhum.

The facility has no means to provide a meal. When we visited the hospital, the kitchen with a soup leading Emergency Realization Room She was charitable busy to serve patients some rice and lenses. It was the only food he would ate that day.

The hospital is overwhelmed and insufficient. He struck him a rocket several times during almost a two-year war. Scouts are placed outside to carry with topping. The CBS news saw that patients were treated on the floor due to lack of bed.

In the middle of all, medical staff under the leadership of dr. Jamala Mohammed fought to save the life of those who remained wounded and starving the war.

Despite the financial support of the United States and other donors, they have already run out of all of the side remedies and bend to insurance rescue equipment before Mr. Trump placed brakes on all American foreign help.

“I don’t know what is behind that Decision President Trump, but I think he will increase and deepen the suffering of our people,” he told us. “We are a forgotten war.”

Former American ambassador in the African Union Jesseya Lapen said for the news of CBS YES, in many ways, US support in countries like Sudan, who has long come primarily through USAID“The face of American values. It is also a game on our external policy.”

She said she was worried that drastic and sudden lifting of help, even if he proves temporary, will have difficult consequences.

“What we see now is I will be afraid, means lacking my united states, undermining American interests and certainly realistic affects on the field for African partners,” she said.

Lapenn claimed that there was a misrepresentation of USAID’s work of the Washington officer.

“I think the debate now seems to be as if she was a charity, and as if it were the benefit that we could not afford. And I don’t think that’s true at any time,” she said. “We know that perhaps 1% of the federal budget, so we can afford it. But at the same time, it was not beneficial. There was a much more strategic investment in American relations on a global level.”

Without a partnership with the United States, some countries may have a little election, but to turn to each other in order to try to fulfill financial emptiness. Some may need to resort to trading or selling their natural resources to meet those needs.

United Arab Emirates, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia are supported in the conflict of Sudan, with eyes on mineral wealth, or, in the case of Russia, the base at the Sudanese coast in the Sudan Port Sudan.

The United Nations issued a fresh appeal last week, and sought $ 6 billion to facilitate hunger in Sudan – 40% more than a global body was needed last year – and called it to the worst hunger who had ever tried to resolve.

Cindy McCain, who runs the World Food Program, said that the Agency worked on supporting about 25 million people facing the hunger in Sudan, but warns that “humanitarian services are on the edge.”

“The global community must act – lives depend on that”, she said In the place on social networks, days after I say that Sudan was “now the epicenter of the world’s largest and oldest crises ever.”

It is unclear who could help fill the gap that left the suspension of USAID work, but certainly in the hospital of CBS visited, Sudanese staff were the best originating.

As we followed Mohammada, the Chief Physicist at Al No, stopped in one of the overpowered consoles for the 10-year-old Akram Atlan console, whose leg is broken by shrapnel. He played with friends next to the river when it happened. The little boy was Susan, terrified, he would lose his leg and with him, I dream of being a football player.

But he was in good hands. Mohammad was a leading orthopedic surgeon before the war began. He lost everything when the conflict started – his home, his lucrative private practice in Khartoum, his car and life savings. His family escaped for safety in Egypt, but he remained behind and, almost two years he held a hospital without any salary. Most days perform three to four operations.

As young Akram pre-prepared for surgery later in the day, Mohammad told us that he never imagined working on the war wounded war. His previous job was focused on medicinal broken bones and changing the lives of people for the better, not taking them to keep them alive.

But despite limited resources, he still brings hope. He worked more than four hours on small children, repairing broken bones and removes a large piece of shrapnel from his leg. The operation was success, and Akram will be able to play football once more.

“It’s my oath,” Mohammad said, why he decided to stay behind the ripped nation, without his family, to keep the Belagan Hospital. “That’s it. Let’s save lives.”