Sudan

Vulnerable populations already feeling impact as US president cuts off billions of dollars in US aid

Tánaiste says hunger caused by conflicts is being exacerbated by denial of humanitarian aid by warring parties

Tom Perriello says splitting nation apart would be a disaster for Sudanese people and regional stability

Bashair teaching hospital in Khartoum has treated 314 children under the age of 15 for wounds from gunshots or blasts this year

42 countries have ‘serious’ or ‘alarming’ hunger levels as conflict takes toll

It is vital that renewed international pressure is applied by the UN both for humanitarian access points and for an effective internationally-enforced arms embargo

Humanitarian organisations say hunger is being used as a weapon, with the hunger crisis in country now world’s largest

Sudan’s hunger crisis is world’s largest with more than 25 million people suffering acute food insecurity

What kind of global mindset allows preposterous, insecure leaders in Sudan, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia and elsewhere to cock their legs on their own populations and the wider world?

Flooding impacts homes of about 50,000 people, UN says

Ongoing civil war has created the world’s largest displacement crisis and killed some 16,000 people

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A country torn apart by civil war could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades, experts say

Asylum seekers fleeing conflict in other countries say they are not granted safe passage and fear for their lives

A further 2 million, at least, have Sudan fled to neighbouring countries

Amid ‘the world’s invisible crisis’, children with disabilities, and the people who love them, face particularly severe challenges

Surrounded by fighters and haunted by famine, residents of Darfur region fear worst

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UN officials and aid agencies at Paris conference also urge Sudan’s warring parties to stop rights violations and allow access for humanitarian aid

With precious little help, people in South Sudan are fleeing a harrowing range of dangers - from war to hunger - in search of safe lives for themselves and their loved ones