Aid agencies ‘nowhere close’ to meeting needs for displaced Sudanese as humanitarian crisis worsens

Children from El Fasher in a camp for displaced Sudanese people in Al-Dabba on Thursday.

The funding gap for aid agencies is accentuating Sudan’s crisis, leaving them unable to help many of the tens of thousands of people fleeing from the Darfur city of El Fasher and other areas, U.N. migration chief Amy Pope said.

The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023, has created what the U.N. has called the world’s largest humanitarian crisis at a time when global aid budgets are shrinking.

Some 12.5 million Sudanese were displaced within and outside the country as of mid-October, with an additional 140,000 since fleeing RSF attacks on El Fasher and towns in the Kordofan region.

But the International Organization for Migration’s $321-m