Mobility and Emergency Event Tracking in Sudan
SEATTLE, Washington Flooding in Sudan has made an already volatile situation worse. Flooding in Sudan is the newest cause of hunger and economic inflation in the country. As a result, Sudan is enhancing its mobility and emergency event tracking system to better identify displaced people in Sudan and connect them to food and shelter.
The Need for Long Term Humanitarian Response
While the number of displaced people rises, humanitarian organizations seek to respond. By 2018, the crisis of displaced people in Sudan already had the full attention of the United Nations. At that time, humanitarian crises were the cause of displacement rather than natural disasters. Mark Lowcock, the humanitarian chief of the United Nations, called for immediate and long term solutions.