Hunger is tightening its grip on Kalma camp, where 29 children died in August amid deepening malnutrition and collapsing humanitarian support.
Camp administrators registered 449 malnutrition cases among children and 279 among pregnant women over the past two months, officials have said.
Camp chief Abdullah Ishaq said 149 children now suffer acute malnutrition and are being treated across three health centers inside the sprawling settlement.
He said most recent deaths were directly linked to worsening malnutrition among the camp’s youngest and most vulnerable residents.
The crisis deepened after the World Food Programme shifted from food rations to cash assistance, cutting beneficiary families from 64,000 to 35,000.
Established in 2004, Kalma now shelters roughly 300,000 displaced people, swollen by fresh arrivals fleeing Sudan’s ongoing war.
The camp’s director urged humanitarian organizations to visit and witness the deteriorating conditions firsthand.
