Top United Nations officials cautioned the Security Council on Friday that approximately 800,000 individuals in a Sudanese city face “immediate and extreme danger” due to increasing violence.
The situation poses a grave risk of triggering violent conflicts between different communities across Darfur.
A year ago, conflict erupted in Sudan involving the Sudanese army (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), leading to the world’s largest displacement crisis.
U.N. Sounds Alarm on Darfur Violence and Humanitarian Crisis
During a Security Council session, U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo informed members that clashes between RSF and SAF-aligned Joint Protection Forces were approaching El Fasher, North Darfur’s capital.
She emphasized the risk of triggering widespread intercommunal violence across Darfur, echoing U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s recent warning.
Approximately 25 million people in Sudan, half of the population, require aid, with 8 million displaced from their homes.
U.N. aid operations director Edem Wosornu stressed the imminent danger facing the 800,000 civilians in El Fasher and the potential for further violence in Darfur, where over 9 million people urgently need humanitarian assistance.
A global authority on food security warned of the need for immediate action to prevent widespread death and livelihood collapse, averting a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan. At a conference in Paris, donors pledged over $2 billion to support war-torn Sudan.
