Sudan, July 16 -- Access to health care is one of the most urgent and challenging issues in conflict-affected regions across Sudan. In the remote mountainous area of Jebel Marra, Darfur, the situation in the towns of Sortoni, Rokero, and Kass is extremely dire.
These towns have been deprived of adequate assistance and neglected by aid actors for over two years since the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces began. Throughout the war, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been working to provide medical care to communities cut off by both geography and conflict, but the needs exceed our capacity to respond alone. MSF calls on donors and other humanitarian actors to step up their support to a...