Fifty U.S. lawmakers are urging the United States to do more for Sudan — a country torn at the seams by conflict, displacement, and hunger.
“The war in Sudan is the largest humanitarian disaster in the world today,” the lawmakers wrote in a recent letter, addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power. “In the face of such incredible suffering, the U.S. must take extraordinary measures to support Sudanese civilians.”
The U.S. is the largest humanitarian donor to Sudan, providing more than $1 billion to the country since its civil war began in April last year. For months, the U.S. has also tried to mediate talks between Sudan’s warring parties: the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, a paramilitary group led by Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo. And this year alone, the U.S. has contributed nearly half of the United Nations’ total humanitarian appeal for Sudan, according to data from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.