Highlights: Sudan: belligerents agree to UN meeting on humanitarian aid. Despite 9 million internally displaced people and 1.5 million refugees, the Sudanese crisis suffers from the indifference of the international community. Nearly a billion and a half dollars: this is what it would take, according to the United Nations, to finance the humanitarian response. Last year, only 38% of the necessary amount was raised. “ Far too little,” according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.

Sudan: belligerents agree to UN meeting on humanitarian aid

In Sudan, the two generals who have been clashing for 10 months, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have agreed to meet under the auspices of the UN, to discuss humanitarian issues. This was announced on Wednesday February 7 by Martin Griffiths, head of Ocha, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This announcement was made in Geneva, during the United Nations call for the 2024 humanitarian response plan. Despite 9 million internally displaced people and 1.5 million refugees, the Sudanese crisis suffers from the indifference of the international community .

Refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan queue with their jerrycans to collect drinking water at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) distribution point in the Ourang refugee camp in Adré, Chad, December 7, 2023 AFP - DENIS SASSOU GUEIPEUR

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Nairobi,

Gaëlle Laleix

Nearly a billion and a half dollars: this is what it would take, according to the United Nations, to finance the humanitarian response to the Sudanese crisis. Last year, only 38% of the necessary amount was raised. “

Far too little

,” according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.

Returning from a stay in Sudan, Ethiopia and South Sudan, he warns: this crisis risks having a major impact, for the region and beyond. “

It’s not just vulnerable populations that are affected,

but also the entire Sudanese middle class… the backbone of society. The country is on the verge of collapse,

” explains Filippo Grandi.

The pressure on neighboring countries themselves in crisis is strong. And already, the UNHCR has identified movements of populations towards Libya and Tunisia, destined for Europe.

Today, the urgency is to find funding while the world has its eyes fixed on the conflict in Palestine. According to Ibrahim Modi, president of the Sudanese National NGO Forum, local humanitarian organizations estimated, in December, to have lost 500 million dollars.

In Ethiopia, as in Chad, the Central African Republic or even South Sudan and Egypt, the security conditions are there. The refugees have been well received, sometimes in quite difficult conditions, but states have generally opened their doors to welcome Sudanese refugees now, when it comes to the living conditions of these people...

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Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR regional director for East Africa on the more than precarious living conditions of displaced Sudanese

Sudan: belligerents agree to UN meeting on humanitarian aid

Sudan: belligerents agree to UN meeting on humanitarian aid

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