UN calls for $4.1bn in aid for Sudan, says crisis needs world’s attention
Al Jazeera
The 10-month conflict has created one of the world’s ‘largest displacement and protection crises’, UN agencies say.
The United Nations has appealed for $4.1bn to meet the humanitarian needs of civilians in war-torn Sudan and to support those who fled the conflict to neighbouring countries.
Ten months since the war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), half of Sudan’s population – some 25 million people – needs humanitarian assistance and protection, UN agencies said on Wednesday.
More than 1.5 million people have fled across Sudan’s borders to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
“Sudan keeps getting forgotten by the international community,” UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told diplomats in Geneva.
In its joint appeal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called for $2.7bn in funding to provide humanitarian aid for 14.7 million people.
