El Fasher has become the epicenter of Sudan’s humanitarian nightmare. After an 18-month siege, the city fell to RSF forces, leaving civilians trapped without food, medicine, or aid. Reports describe mass executions, sexual violence, and bodies abandoned in the streets. Rights groups warn these atrocities echo the ethnic cleansing of Darfur, as famine and displacement reach catastrophic levels.

"How would we survive if they reduced rations, and what would we eat? We are not allowed to work outside. We get arrested, kidnapped, or even killed if we go out to work. We starve," said Shafika, who is one of more than 700,000 Rohingya people who ran away to Bangladesh in 2017 after Myanmar’s army attacked their villages in Rakhine state - World Food Programme, Bangladesh, 2025. This crisis has unfolded due to significant funding shortfalls in humanitarian aid. In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, over a million Rohingya refugees live in extremely fragile conditions. In March 2025, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that monthly food rations would be reduced from 1521 Bangladeshi taka ($12.50 per person) to 730 taka ($6), causing families living in camps, struggle to meet basic daily nutritional needs.  Major donors, including the United States, significantly decreased contributions to the Rohingya response. The WFP, which relies entirely...