Sudan crisis, two years on
Two years into Sudan’s brutal war, the humanitarian catastrophe has engulfed the entire country, spilled over across the region, and shows no signs of abating. Thousands continue to be killed, starved and raped as violence forces millions to leave their homes throughout Sudan and across borders.
Since breaking out in Khartoum in April 2023, the armed conflict quickly spread and escalated into the world’s gravest humanitarian crisis. All key indicators turned scarlet over the course of the past 24 months:
• Highest number of People in Need ever recorded : For the first time in the history of modern humanitarian response, a single country reaches over 30 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. That’s 3 in every 5 people living in Sudan.
• Highest number of internally displaced in the world with up to 9 million people forcibly displaced inside Sudan. Combined with over 3.7 million refugees and returnees in neighboring countries, nearly 13 million people have fled violence in the past 2 years, making it one of the largest displacement crises post-World War II.
• Highest number of people in emergency or catastrophic levels of hunger, with over 600,000 people living in famine, and 8 million others on the cliff edge.