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Sudan

Country in northeastern Africa

World · 18 Oct 2026Sudan's chronically ill forced to choose between medicine and food amid civil war

Sudan's three-and-a-half-year civil war has pushed people living with diabetes, hypertension and heart disease into impossible choices between medicine and food, with the collapse of the Sudanese pound and the destruction of the pharmaceutical sector driving life-saving treatment beyond the reach of many patients, Al Jazeera reports.