The Foreign Secretary has today, 1 November, announced £5 million of urgent funding to provide lifesaving support for Sudan.

Speaking at the 21st Manama Dialogue Conference in Bahrain, the Foreign Secretary condemned the truly horrifying and utterly intolerable scenes in El-Fasher where 260,000 people, half of whom are children, are trapped in famine-like conditions, surrounded by violence, and cut off from aid.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said:

In Sudan right now, there is just despair…

And just as the combination of leadership and international cooperation has made progress on Gaza, it is currently failing to deal with the humanitarian crisis and the devastating conflict in Sudan.

…For too long, this terrible conflict has been neglected, while suffering has simply increased…

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