PARIS (AP) — World donors pledged more than $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan after a yearlong war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.
Top diplomatic envoys, U.N. officials & aid agencies urged Sudan’s warring parties to stop attacks on civilians & allow access for humanitarian aid & called for immediate international mediation efforts toward peace. Members of Sudan’s civil society took part in the Paris meeting.
Sudan descended into conflict in April last year when simmering tensions between the military & the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into open fighting.
“Much of the world has been focused on the crisis that was generated in the Middle East. As concerning as those developments are, other dramatic life-and-death emergencies are being pushed into the shadows,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. “The world is forgetting about the people of Sudan.”
The U.N’s humanitarian campaign needs some $2.7 billion this year to get food, health care & other supplies to 24 million people in Sudan. So far, funders have given only $145 million, about 5%, according to the U.N’s humanitarian office, known as OCHA.
Monday’s conference among 58 countries also called on regional powers to stop funding Sudan’s war.
More than 14,000 people have been killed at least 33,000 have been wounded in the yearlong war. Nearly 9 million people have been forced to flee their homes either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighboring countries, according to the U.N. Hunger, sexual violence against women and girls and continued displacement are rampant & much of the country’s infrastructure — homes, hospitals & schools — has been reduced to rubble. “We cannot let this nightmare slide from view,” Guterres said.
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