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KEY MESSAGES
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Two years into the conflict, Sudan is now one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Needs have escalated dramatically, driven by the collapse of infrastructure, eroded coping capacities, and widespread displacement. The country was already fragile before April 2023, but sice then, the crisis’ scale and severity has surged. Half the population is now acutely food insecure, with famine being declared in parts of North Darfur and the Western Nuba Mountains, while many other areas are at risk of famine.
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Despite urgent needs, the humanitarian response remains severely constrained. Funding shortfalls and access barriers prevent aid from reaching many of the worst-affected areas. Bureaucratic hurdles, looting, ongoing violence, and attacks on aid workers and infrastructure continue to block life-saving assistance. These restrictions also limit data collection, obscuring the full scale and severity of needs and driving an increasing risk of missing pockets of catastrophic needs due to the inability to collect data. Recent global funding cuts, including by the US, threaten to further curtail life-saving operations and roll back hard-won progress, particularly in terms of support to grassroots humanitarian efforts.
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Sudan’s conflict increasingly threatens regional stability. Cross-border trade, mobility, and economic ties have been disrupted, fuelling tensions in and among already fragile neighbouring countries. Chad, South Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic, and Libya are each hosting large numbers of Sudanese refugees in increasingly protracted contexts, placing mounting pressure on limited resources. In South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, historical ties to armed actors in Sudan and porous borders have heightened the risk of escalatory spillover violence, additional displacement, and disease transmission.