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A U.S. aid shipment carrying enough wheat to help feed more than 3.2 million Sudanese for a month arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday, as the country faces a severe humanitarian crisis. The shipment was exempted from a broader decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze foreign aid, with Washington permitting life-saving assistance, notably…
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Dear Senators Risch, Shaheen, Cruz, Booker, Coons, Merkley, Van Hollen, Rounds, Barasso and Cornyn, and Representatives Mast, Meeks, Smith, Jacobs, McCaul, Kim, Jayapal, McGovern and James, Thank you for your recent engagement in support of the people of Sudan and South Sudan. We, the 76 undersigned organizations and individuals, write to strongly encourage you to…
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In the besieged area of Al Fasher in North Darfur, Famine (IPC Phase 5) is confirmed to be currently ongoing in Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) based on reasonable evidence that all three Famine thresholds were passed in June. It is possible Famine (IPC Phase 5) is also ongoing in nearby Abu Shouk and Al Salam IDP…
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More children dying of hunger in Darfur and Nuba Mountains
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As the conflict in Sudan rages on, an army has built its own state within a state — a vision of what the nation could become.
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Letter is available here. We, the heads of over 50 human rights and humanitarian organizations are coming together to sound the alarm about Sudan, where a disaster is unfolding before our eyes. With fighting continuing across the country, brutal sexual violence rising, widespread deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and journalists and human rights defenders…
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Letter is available here, here and here. To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) Excellencies, Following the outbreak of armed conflict in Khartoum and other areas of Sudan, on April 15, 2023, over one hundred civil society organisations called on States to convene a…
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Letter is available here and here. The Honorable Antony Blinken US Secretary of State Department of State The Right Honorable James Cleverly MP UK Secretary of State Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office Dear Secretaries Blinken and Cleverly, On behalf of the United States Prevention and Protection Working Group and the United Kingdom Civil Society Atrocity Prevention Working Group,…
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PDF of letter in English and in Arabic available here. Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh The Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations 315 E. 46th Street New York, NY 10017 Your Excellency, On behalf of Act for Sudan, I write to you in your capacity as President of the…
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The letter is also posted online here. April 28, 2023 President Joseph R. Biden 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 RE: Human rights concerns in Sudan Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, are writing with deep concern over the catastrophic situation unfolding in Sudan. Since 15 April, fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces…