Sudan faces the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the US Government – ahead of Gaza, Ukraine, Haiti and Myanmar. Despite indefatigable efforts by former Special Sudan Envoy Tom Perriello, the United States has failed — along with its African, Arab, and European partners — to make progress toward peace in the war between Sudanese military elements that has been tearing the country apart since April 2023.
The Executive Order imposing a 90-day freeze on expenditures by the U.S. Agency for International Development has abruptly halted many local programs of public health and food assistance to suffering civilian populations in South Sudan as well as Sudan. USAID had been supplying two-thirds of the support for the Emergency Response Rooms created by brave and resourceful Sudanese to provide one meal per day to starving people. That support has stopped dead.
AFRECS, through our direct contacts with dioceses and agencies of the Episcopal Church in both Sudans, is still able to transmit some financial assistance to people who are homeless, hungry, and living with memories of mass death and rape.
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At the same time, AFRECS, along with other faith-based and humanitarian organizations, is appealing to the new U.S. Administration to view the catastrophe in Sudan — the worst humanitarian crisis in the world – with the utmost seriousness. It asks the Administration urgently to pursue with African, Middle Eastern and European partners a prompt end to the fighting in Sudan, a vast expansion of humanitarian assistance, and a peaceful transition to inclusive civilian and democratic rule.
