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Highlights
▪ UN agencies issued a joint warning that time is running out to prevent starvation in Sudan’s Darfur region due to intensifying clashes around the northern capital of El Fasher, which are hindering efforts to deliver lifesaving aid. UN agencies warn of imminent starvation risk in Sudan’s Darfur region | UN News
▪ The Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, called on the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese authorities to refrain from fighting in El Fasher and stressed that an attack on the city would likely have devastating consequences for the civilian population. Since his participation in the Paris conference in April, Mr. Lamamra has travelled to Chad, Ethiopia and Eritrea for discussions with the African Union and regional leaders on the way forward.
▪ In Sudan, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, has stressed that the killing of aid workers is unconscionable, following reports that two drivers from the International Committee of the Red Cross were killed by gunmen in South Darfur. ICRC said that three other staff were injured. ICRC Press Release
▪ The ongoing conflict between rival forces in Sudan has stalled progress towards the determination of the final status of the disputed oil-rich Abyei region which straddles the SudanSouth Sudan border, the head of UN peacekeeping operations said on 7 May. Ongoing war in Sudan stalls progress in disputed Abyei region | UN News. Despite these challenges, the UN remains prepared to support both parties, in close collaboration with the African Union, once they resume political negotiation said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, briefing ambassadors at the Security Council.
▪ On 29 April, three UNHCR operations – Sudan, Chad and Egypt – participated in the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub) Sudan briefing. The Global Hub briefing was opened by the Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation and attended by donors and country-based education specialists from Egypt, Sudan and Chad. (For the PPT presentation, click here. )