Edited News | OCHA , OHCHR , UNHCR , UN WOMEN , WFP , WHO
Deux ans après le début du conflit brutal au Soudan, les agences de l'ONU ont averti que la famine se répand et que les civils de tous âges continuent de subir des abus choquants, y compris le viol et le viol collectif.
« Sans paix viable en vue, les Soudanais sont piégés dans une crise humanitaire de proportions industrielles,» a déclaré Jens Laerke, orateur pour le bureau de coordination de l'aide de l'ONU, OCHA. « Deux personnes sur trois ont besoin d'aide, soit 30 millions de personnes… Cela exige bien sûr une augmentation massive du soutien international. Ce que nous voyons à la place, c'est que les donateurs réduisent le financement à travers le monde.»
La guerre entre les militaires rivaux – les Forces armées soudanaises (SAF) et les Forces de soutien rapide (RSF) – a commencé le 15 avril 2023 après un échec dans la transition vers un régime civil, suite au renversement du président de longue date Omar al-Bashir. Les combats intenses ont rasé des villes et des cités et ont coûté la vie à des dizaines de milliers de personnes. Au moins 12,4 millions de personnes ont été déracinées de leurs foyers, y compris plus de 3,3 millions de réfugiés.
Depuis le début, les travailleurs humanitaires et d'autres, y compris le bureau des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, OHCHR, ont averti à plusieurs reprises que la violence sexuelle reste omniprésente au Soudan.
« Une survivante a raconté qu'on lui a dit, ‘Nous sommes vos hommes maintenant,’ avant que les combattants de la RSF ne la violent devant ses enfants,» a déclaré Li Fung, Représentante de l'OHCHR au Soudan, s'adressant aux journalistes à Genève via une liaison vidéo depuis Nairobi.
Parallèlement, le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) de l'ONU a réitéré ses profondes préoccupations concernant les 25 millions de Soudanais confrontés à la famine. « Deux ans de guerre ont transformé le Soudan en la plus grande catastrophe de la faim au monde et la famine se répand,» a déclaré Leni Kinzli, Responsable de la communication du PAM pour le Soudan, également depuis la capitale kenyane.
Dans un appel de fonds pour soutenir le travail de l'agence de l'ONU, elle a témoigné de la valeur de l'aide alimentaire pour les personnes déplacées à l'intérieur du pays (PDI) : « Cela signifie qu'un père qui a été arraché de son domicile à Khartoum peut nourrir sa famille de quatre personnes ; cela signifie qu'une mère dans un camp de PDI à Kassala peut préparer un repas simple pour ses jeunes filles afin qu'elles ne tombent pas dans la malnutrition.»
Au milieu des rapports selon lesquels les paramilitaires de la RSF avaient pris la ville clé de Darfour, Um Kadadah, des SAF, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) de l'ONU a averti que les attaques contre le personnel et les installations de santé « sont en augmentation ».
Les deux dernières années ont vu 156 attaques confirmées contre la santé « causant plus de 300 décès et plus de 270 blessures parmi les patients ou les travailleurs de la santé », a déclaré Dr Shible Sahbani, Représentant de l'OMS au Soudan, s'exprimant via une liaison vidéo depuis Le Caire.
Reflétant ces préoccupations, ONU Femmes a rapporté que 80 % des hôpitaux dans les zones de conflit ne fonctionnent plus, avec des décès maternels en augmentation « alarmante ».
Huit femmes et filles déplacées sur dix au Soudan n'ont désormais plus accès à l'eau potable, a déclaré Sofia Calltorp, Directrice d'ONU Femmes à Genève, soulignant l'impact des réductions profondes du financement pour le travail humanitaire à l'échelle mondiale.
«Les dernières réductions mondiales du financement humanitaire ont mis en péril des programmes critiques, obligeant les équipes à faire des choix déraisonnables et laissant les réfugiés recourir à des stratégies nuisibles pour répondre à leurs besoins de base,» a déclaré Olga Sarrado, oratrice de l'agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR).
« À l'intérieur du Soudan, la réduction du financement coupera l'accès à l'eau potable pour au moins un demi-million de personnes déplacées, augmentant considérablement les risques de choléra et d'autres maladies d'origine hydrique,» a-t-elle ajouté.
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HISTOIRE : Deux ans de guerre au Soudan – OCHA, OHCHR, UNHCR, PAM, OMS, ONU Femmes
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DATE : 11 AVRIL 2025 GENÈVE, SUISSE
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New data showing that rivers were at their lowest level for decades last year provides further evidence that the climate crisis is real and countries must act immediately to protect themselves from the increasing threat to communities and livelihoods, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
The key findings from WMO’s State of Global Water Resources 2025 report covering the hydrological cycle and extreme events in the five-year period to last year:
Highlighting the long-term decline in the Earth’s freshwater storage and glacier melt, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo explained that the planet’s water reserves used to act as a planetary “savings account” that absorbed the occasional dry season, avoiding a water crisis. “One of the central stories of the 2025 report is what is happening to that savings account? And the simple answer is that we are depleting it,” she told journalists in Geneva.
Groundwater reserves are equally stretched and have been in decline since 2014, WMO’s report states, with nearly two-thirds of monitored wells worldwide showing levels lower than the historical norm and indicating a shift “further toward deficit…not recovery”.
“At the same time, we are seeing more water-related disasters,” Ms. Saulo said, while also stressing that the currently strengthening El Niño “will increase the risk of drought in some areas, and flooding in others”.
Glaciers disappearing
In 2025, for the fourth consecutive year, every major glaciated region on Earth lost ice mass, leading to short-term hazards including floods and long-term water insecurity, according to WMO.
Responding to a question about whether the changing global water cycle might have contributed to the deadly Nepal-China flooding disaster, Ms. Saulo explained that melting ice and rock was just one factor in the chain of events that ultimately sent a massive and deadly wall of water and debris downstream on 26 August, killing at least 1,367 people.
“You asked if it could happen again? Absolutely; the problem in this region is that there’s 63,700 glaciers at the last count,” she told a Press Conference in Geneva. “Even if you’re looking with remote sensing with satellites at these glaciers, you might see some faults, you might see some slight shifting, that does not mean necessarily catastrophic collapse. So, in order to plan for this, it’s very, very difficult. But the international community is looking very hard at ways in which we can bring people together to solve some of these monitoring issues.”
Data indicates that glaciers shrank between 2023 and 2025 with cumulative losses of 1,400 gigatonnes of water – or about one third of annual fresh water needs.
Every major glacier region on Earth lost ice for the fourth consecutive year.
“All 19 glacier regions around the globe lost ice; in Central Asia, Iceland, the Russian Arctic and western Canada and the United States, it was among the three worst years on record,” said Wayne Jenkinson, WMO’s Director of Hydrology and Cryosphere.
Some regions with smaller glaciers such as Central Europe, the Caucasus, the western Canada and the United States may already have reached “peak water”, Mr. Jenkinson warned.
“After this point, the glacier gives less meltwater each year simply because there is less ice left to melt. That matters for every community downstream that relies on water during hot, dry summers,” he explained.
Narelle van der Wel, WMO’s Head of Cryosphere Monitoring, Predictions and Services, stressed that while some further glacier loss is unavoidable, the eventual scale of the decline is not predetermined.
“Some glacier loss is inevitable, but total loss of glaciers is not yet inevitable,” she said, pointing to emissions reductions as central to limiting future losses.
Preparing for moving baselines
The report does not attribute every observed change to climate change alone. WMO says pressure on water resources and natural variability also contribute.
Mr. Jenkinson said governments need to prepare for “moving baselines” as historical patterns become less reliable.
“The situation 30 years ago is not where we are today,” he said. Countries, he added, need to prepare “for those changes that have really already arrived”.
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