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The UN sponsored a donor conference for conflict-hit Sudan, appealing to countries in the Middle East and Europe to ramp up aid efforts to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the African nation. International donors pledged some $1.5 billion, covering only around half of what the UN had requested.
The UN-sponsored a donor conference for conflict-hit Sudan, appealing to countries in the Middle East and Europe to ramp up aid efforts to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the African nation. International donors pledged some $1.5 billion, covering only around half of what the UN had requested.
Sudan has been embroiled in a conflict between rival military factions for over two months, which has left 2.2 million people displaced. Some 2,000 people have been killed in the violence, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project said.
The scale and speed of Sudan’s descent into death and destruction are unprecedented, stated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the opening of the meeting in Geneva. Without strong international support, Sudan could quickly become a locus of lawlessness, radiating insecurity across the region, he added.
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The UN had appealed for $2.6 billion this year in humanitarian aid to Sudan and an additional $470 million in regional aid to help refugees from the conflict. Sudan was already grappling with a humanitarian crisis. This has now escalated into a catastrophe affecting more than half the country’s people, said Guterres. UN agencies said ahead of the conference that almost 25 million people in Sudan are in need of humanitarian aid, while 4 million children and pregnant or nursing mothers are acutely malnourished.
