The Sudan is currently in ruins due in large part to a 10-month war that has caused a crisis in the displacement of civilians.
Refugee camp at the St. Mary Help of Christians Cathedral of Wau town.
On Wednesday, the United Nations set forth a proposal that it believes would alleviate a great deal of pain and suffering.
The UN is appealing for $4.1 billion to help with humanitarian needs and support those who have fled the nation to become refugees in neighboring countries as well.
The war between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force has destroyed much of the already crumbling national infrastructure and caused millions to fall under the shadow of famine as resources continue to dwindle.
How Bad Is It?
The international governmental body believes 25 million Sudanese people need humanitarian assistance and protection. 1.5 million people have fled to nearby Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
In January, Reuters reported that aid groups were looking to deliver aid to Sudan via South Sudan because the lack of access to much of the country due to fighting.
Looting, and attacks on humanitarian workers, have long been a point of contention, in addition to bureaucratic roadblocks to get into Port Sudan, which is controlled by the army, and securing travel permits to access the rest of the country.
"There's a very, very difficult operating environment, very hard," Rick Brennan, regional emergencies director for the World Health Organization (WHO), said in a press briefing in Cairo on Monday.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is calling for $2.7 billion in funding for humanitarian aid for 14.7 million people.
"Sudan keeps getting forgotten by the international community," U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told diplomats at the United Nations in Geneva.
"There is a certain kind of obscenity about the humanitarian world, which is the competition of suffering, a competition between places: 'I have more suffering than you, so I need to get more attention, so I need to get more money.'"
Griffiths added that both sides had been invited to Geneva to further speak on protecting and aiding civilians, further stating that both parties had agreed in principle, but details are still being worked on.
The aid agency's request for humanitarian support in 2023 was eventually less than half funded.
