Khartoum — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan reports in its latest weekly bulletin that a one million children in Sudan under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition. Another two million are stunted owing to chronic malnutrition. The World Food Programme (WFP) nutrition interventions are constrained by a lack of funding and difficulties in importing "super cereals". Heavy rainfall and floods affect the delivery of aid in parts of Darfur.
The Sudanese Ministry of Health has recorded 2,896 confirmed measles cases, including 43 deaths, and 4,545 suspected measles cases by the end of July.
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