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The United States granted US$315 million in humanitarian aid to Sudan and refugee-receiving countries including the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. [28] The United Arab Emirates set aside 70% of its US$100 million humanitarian pledge to give to Sudan and surrounding countries affected by the humanitarian crisis ...
The Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) was established shortly thereafter by the Secretary-General, but in 1998, was merged into OCHA, which became the UN's main focal point on major disasters. [2] OCHA's mandate was subsequently broadened to include coordinating humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy. Its ...
Sudan, Remember Us (French: Soudan, souviens-toi) is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Hind Meddeb. It depicts the 2019 overthrow of Sudanese leader Omar Al-Bashir and the subsequent civil war that followed. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2024.
World leaders pledged more than $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan at a donors conference in Paris in April, but U.S. envoy Linda Thomas-Greenfield said only about a quarter of the promis.
An estimated 25 million people, equivalent to more than half of Sudan's population, were said to be in need of aid in June 2023. [62] On 25 July, Humanitarian Coordinator Clementine Nkweta-Salami said attacks on humanitarian facilities had led to more than 50 warehouses looted, 82 offices ransacked, and over 200 vehicles stolen. [63]
Cindy McCain, head of the World Food Program, said the fighting in Sudan, which pits the country’s military against a violent paramilitary group, has shattered the lives of millions across the ...
The Central Emergency Response Fund (French: Fonds central d'intervention d'urgence, CERF/FCIU) is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 2005 and launched in March 2006. With CERF's objectives to 1) promote early action and response to reduce loss of life; 2) enhance response to time-critical ...
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Africa in mid-April 2023 after the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war.By June 2024, around 2.1 million people have fled the country, while around 12 million [4] [5] have been internally displaced within Sudan; these numbers include at least 75,000 migrant returnees and other third-country nationals, making the refugee and displacement crisis in Sudan the ...