A top UN humanitarian boss has warned that Sudan is on the brink of a ‘full-scale civil war’ that could throw the entire region into chaos. Fighting between a paramilitary group and the Sudanese Army has left hundreds dead and thousands injured.
If this all continues, Martin Griffiths, chief of the UN’s humanitarian and emergency relief office, Sudan will spiral.
‘We don’t have a place, a forum, where the two parties are present… where we can broker the kind of basic agreements that we need to move supplies and people,’ he told The Associated Press.Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, says Sudan is on the brink of a ‘civil war’ Getting humanitarian aid to Sudan is tricky, Griffiths said, with thechalking it up to a lack of funding and how aid and medical are being targeted by armed soldiers.
‘If I were Sudanese, I find it hard to imagine that this isn’t a civil war… of the most brutal kind,’ he added.‘It’s a threat to the state itself… and if that doesn’t qualify for being a civil war, I don’t know what does.’ ‘We have to re-create the architecture that we had for a little while in Jeddah,’ Griffiths added of the Saudi and US-mediated talks.
While those discussions have been ‘very clunky’ and ‘time-consuming’, he said, they have produced ‘some real movement’ in getting aid to the ground.
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