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Today, the numbers add up to famine.

In Sudan, 2.5 million people could die by September.

I've never seen the international community turn a blind eye to any catastrophe as much as they've been doing to the Sudanese catastrophe.

How Sudanese are trying to fill the gap.

I'm Alika Bilal, and this is The Take.

Sudanese culture is about sharing.

You have a situation where a person can afford two meals a day, so they are having one meal,

so their neighbor who has no meals can have one meal also.

Mohannad al-Bal is one of the founders of Khartoum Kitchen. It's a food aid initiative to

help feed the millions of Sudanese people currently going hungry.

So the quality of what was being provided by a lot of kitchens was very

nutritiously poor and in response to increased demand, what ended up happening that stews kept

on getting watered down, watered, until the point everybody was being served effectively

flavoured water.

Though Mohanid is based in the UK, he's been working with relatives in Sudan on the project

since March.

They're now directly running 11 kitchens, and four more that they run with partners.

We decided that we're going to make sure what we give was nutritious. So we decided to do lentil stew, but to combine our lentil stew with peanut butter.

Peanut butter is high in protein and there's also calorie dense.

And Sudan is a major peanut producer.

In Arabic, peanuts are called the fool of Sudanis Nuts, because it's associated with the country.

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