US pledges $203 million in aid to Sudan but calls for more global support: Video

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced on Thursday, July 18, nearly $203 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan.

However, she cautioned that the funds are not a "panacea" and called on other nations to honour their financial commitments to what she described as "the world’s worst humanitarian crisis."

World leaders committed over $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan at a donors conference in Paris in April. Yet, US envoy Thomas-Greenfield revealed that only about a quarter of the promised funds have been received three months later.

"Three months after the April 15th pledging conference in Paris, only two-thirds of the pledges have been dispersed and only about a quarter of the response has been funded. All the while, the Adre border crossing, one of the most important in terms of humanitarian aid flow, continues to be blocked by the SAF. This obstruction is completely unacceptable," Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield stated.

Sudan plunged into chaos in April 2023 when tensions between the country’s military and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces erupted into open conflict in Khartoum. The devastating conflict has since spread, particularly affecting western Darfur, resulting in the deaths of more than 14,000 people and injuries to 33,000 others, according to the United Nations. It has also triggered the world’s largest displacement crisis, with over 11 million people forced to flee their homes.

The US Mission to the United Nations detailed that the $203 million in assistance includes over $178 million from the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and nearly $25 million through the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.