Today, at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States will provide nearly $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Sudan in response to the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
With this additional assistance, through USAID and the State Department, the United States will continue to provide urgently needed agriculture support, food assistance, water, sanitation, and hygiene support, nutrition, and health and protection services for the most vulnerable Sudanese, including internally displaced people and refugees. More than 30 million people in Sudan will be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2025 as they continue to face worsening food insecurity and increasingly sparse natural resources, according to the 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview. Moreover, 12 million people have been displaced since the start of the conflict, including 2.5 million people who fled the country altogether. This assistance will be vital in helping meet the needs of people in Sudan and those who have fled to neighboring countries.
This announcement comes as civilians continue to be caught in the crosshairs of the brutal 20-month conflict. In recent weeks in North Darfur, there have been attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, where more than half a million people reside and where there is confirmed Famine, and an airstrike recently hit a market killing more than 100 people. Detainees have been abused and sometimes killed at SAF and RSF detention sites. Women and girls have been subjected to gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and kidnapping. The ongoing atrocities that have occurred as part of the conflict in Sudan have been horrific. The United States continues to call on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians.
We remain committed to supporting the people of Sudan as this horrific war continues. The United States is the largest donor of humanitarian aid to the Sudan response, providing more than $2.3 billion in humanitarian assistance since the start of Fiscal Year 2023. Robust funding to sustain humanitarian operations is vital to keep people affected by the Sudan conflict alive, and we urge other donors to step up their support, but funding alone is not enough. Combatants must immediately and permanently cease hostilities, end their interference in humanitarian operations, and facilitate safe and unhindered access for humanitarian staff and supplies to reach populations in need across borders and across lines of conflict throughout Sudan.
