Sudan: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2021
🛡️ Mission status: ongoing
🏥 Beneficiaries in 2024: 87.873
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Malnutrition | Women’s health
Humanitarian situation in Sudan
Sudan is currently facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in Africa, marked by armed conflict, political instability, and growing food insecurity. This crisis has triggered the continent’s largest displacement crisis.
📌 Key figures of the crisis in Sudan
- 🌍 Population: 47.5 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: 30.4 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 11.4 million (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 24.6 million (WFP, 2024)
Violence has forced millions of people to flee their homes, while seasonal floods continue to worsen the living conditions of vulnerable populations.
To address these challenges, ALIMA is taking action to ensure access to healthcare and nutrition for the most affected people.
Medical aid and humanitarian response in Sudan
👩⚕️ Maternal and child health
ALIMA is supporting several structures in South Kordofan (Kadugli, Reif Al Shargi) and North Darfur:
- Maternity and pediatric services at Kadugli University Hospital
- Primary healthcare centers and mobile clinics for displaced populations
- A stabilization center for malnourished children and North Darfur Children’s Hospital
The teams ensure safe births, care of children in critical condition, and the follow-up of pregnant and breastfeeding women.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA supported 3.744 pregnant women and 1.336 newborns.
🥣 Malnutrition management
Conflict and climate disasters have exacerbated Sudan’s food crisis, leaving millions of children at risk and pushing several regions into famine.
ALIMA is strengthening the early detection of malnutrition and providing appropriate care through outpatient care units and stabilization centers.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA treated 2.380 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
🚑 Care for displaced populations and vulnerable communities
In the states of North Darfur and South Kordofan, ALIMA has deployed:
- Mobile teams to care for isolated populations
- Free consultations in health centers
- Support for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV)
As access to healthcare is extremely limited, ALIMA is providing life-saving medical assistance to people affected by the conflict.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA provided 35.114 medical consultations to displaced people.
Highlight project: medical and nutritional support for displaced populations and host communities
🎯 A project addressing the needs of populations in distress
Since the escalation of conflict in April 2023, Sudan has descended further into crisis. ALIMA has intensified its efforts to assist both internally displaced people and host communities.
📌 Why this project matters
- Collapse of the local healthcare system.
- Sharp rise in child malnutrition.
- Reduced access to healthcare due to violence and lack of infrastructure.
📌 Project goals
- Free medical and nutritional care for children and pregnant women.
- Mobile clinics reaching the most remote areas.
- Capacity building for local health systems and caregiver training.
- Mental health and psychosocial support integrated into care services.
This project responds to humanitarian emergencies while sustainably strengthening access to care for vulnerable populations.
On the ground
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