UN allocates $20m for humanitarian needs in Sudan
August 29, 2023 (GEVEVA) – The United Nations on Wednesday announced allocation of additional $20 million for the growing humanitarian needs in Sudan.
“As humanitarian needs soar in Sudan with critically low funding, I’ve approved an additional $20M from UNCERF [the UN emergency response fund],” the UN relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths said in a tweet.
$60 million of UN emergency funds has been allocated to Sudan this year, he said.
“Civilians need life-saving assistance now; humanitarians need access and funding to deliver it,” Griffiths stressed.
Thousands of people have been killed and more than four million displaced since the outbreak of clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan in April, according to UN estimates.
On Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi made an appeal for $1billion to cater for the humanitarian needs of refugees and returnees fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
South Sudan, according to Grandi, has so far received about 400,000 people, the majority being South Sudanese returnees from neighbouring Sudan.
More than 4.5 million people have been displaced inside and outside Sudan due to the conflict that erupted on 15 April between the Sudanese army (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (SAF), according to the UN and other aid agencies.
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