{"id":133841,"date":"2025-04-15T22:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/sudan-in-worlds-largest-humanitarian-crisis-after-two-years-of-civil-war-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:23:04","slug":"sudan-in-worlds-largest-humanitarian-crisis-after-two-years-of-civil-war-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/sudan-in-worlds-largest-humanitarian-crisis-after-two-years-of-civil-war-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan in \u2018world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis\u2019 after two years of civil war – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

NGOs and UN say country is \u2018worse off than ever before\u2019 with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps
Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country\u2019s civil war enters its third year.
The UK is hosting ministers from 20 countries in London on Tuesday in an attempt to restart stalled peace talks<\/a>. However, diplomatic efforts have often been sidelined by other crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum<\/a> between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, hundreds of people were feared to have died in RSF attacks on refugee camps<\/a> in the western Darfur region in the latest apparent atrocity of a war marked by its brutality and wide-scale humanitarian impact.
The consequences for Sudan\u2019s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine<\/a>. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries.
\u201cSudan is now worse off than ever before,\u201d said Elise Nalbandian, Oxfam\u2019s regional advocacy manager. \u201cThe largest humanitarian crisis, largest displacement crisis, largest hunger crisis \u2026 It\u2019s breaking all sorts of wrong records.\u201d
There were \u201cmassive-scale\u201d violations of international humanitarian law in the conflict, said Daniel O\u2019Malley, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Sudan. \u201cAll of the civilian population, irrespective of where they are in the country, have basically been trapped between one, two or more parties. And they have been bearing the brunt of everything. The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.\u201d
Last month, Sudan\u2019s military recaptured the highly symbolic presidential palace<\/a> in Khartoum and it has retaken most of the capital. But in much of the country, the conflict rages on. Sources cited by the UN reported that more than 400 people had been killed in recent attacks by the RSF in Darfur, where the group is trying to seize El Fasher, the last state capital in the region not under its control.
Since late last week, the RSF has launched ground and aerial assaults on El Fasher itself and the nearby Zamzam and Abu Shouk displacement camps. A UN spokesperson told Agence France-Presse that the UN\u2019s rights office had verified 148 killings and received reports from \u201ccredible sources\u201d that the total number of dead exceeded 400.
Reuters reported that data from the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration<\/a> suggested that up to 400,000 people had been displaced from the Zamzam camp alone since the weekend.
In a statement the UN rights chief, Volker T\u00fcrk, said the \u201clarge-scale attacks \u2026 made starkly clear the cost of inaction by the international community, despite my repeated warnings of heightened risk for civilians in the area\u201d.
He added: \u201cThe attacks have exacerbated an already dire protection and humanitarian crisis in a city that has endured a devastating RSF siege since May last year.\u201d
El Fasher is one of several areas of Darfur where a famine, affecting about 637,000 people, has been declared. Almost half the 50-million population of Sudan \u2013 24.6 million people \u2013 do not have enough food.
Leni Kinzli, the World Food Programme\u2019s head of communications for Sudan, said the other conflicts, as well as a lack of access for journalists, and Sudan\u2019s relative international isolation since the days of the regime of the ousted dictator Omar al-Bashir all meant Sudan was not getting the attention it needed.
\u201cWe don\u2019t see the level of international attention on Sudan as we do for other crises,\u201d she said. \u201cThere should not be a competition between crises. But unfortunately we\u2019re seeing with everything going on in the world, other conflicts, other humanitarian crises and other things making headlines, that unfortunately Sudan is \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t even call it forgotten \u2013 it\u2019s ignored.\u201d
The origins of the war can be traced to late 2018, when popular protests broke out against the Sudanese dictator Bashir. Sudan\u2019s army leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, allied with the RSF chief, Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo<\/a>, a former warlord known as Hemedti, to oust Bashir in a coup in April 2019.
They then allied again in 2021 to depose a civilian government meant to transition Sudan to a democracy. However, Hemedti had long coveted ultimate power for himself, and the friction between the two spiralled into full-on war less than two years later.
The RSF, a paramilitary force that grew out of the Janjaweed Arab militias accused of committing genocide<\/a> in the Darfur region in the mid-2000s, made rapid gains in the first weeks and months, as the fighting spread beyond Khartoum.
In Darfur thousands of people died in the first year of the war, in well-documented attacks by the RSF and allied militias on non-Arab Masalit and other ethnic groups. Masalit refugees who had fled west to Chad recounted women and girls being targeted for gang rapes<\/a> and boys shot in the street. Militia fighters said they would force women to have \u201cArab babies\u201d<\/a>, according to a UN report released in November 2024.
The RSF and the army have both been accused of committing war crimes in the course of the conflict.
In January of this year the US formally declared that the RSF had committed genocide<\/a>, marking the second time in less than 30 years that genocide had been perpetrated in Sudan.
The United Arab Emirates has been accused of fuelling the conflict by arming the RSF. Emirati passports allegedly found<\/a> on the battlefield last year point to potential covert boots on the ground. The UAE has denied all involvement in the war.
<\/span> This article was amended on 15 April 2025. An earlier version featured maps which mislabelled the Central African Republic as Cameroon.<\/p>\n

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