Sudan Crisis Enters Ninth Month

More than 7.4 million Sudanese, both inside and outside the country, are currently displaced. Sudan has the largest child displacement globally, with three million children fleeing violence. The conflict has left 19 million children without access to education due to the closure of 10,400 schools in conflict zones, as reported in a 2023 CARE report.

Despite its devastating scope, Sudan has become a forgotten crisis, receiving limited media coverage and inadequate funding. Approximately 24.8 million people, nearly half the population, will require humanitarian assistance in 2024, according to the UN. However, global funding for the crisis remains grossly inadequate, at barely 40% of what the Humanitarian Response Plan called for at the end of 2023.

The conflict has expanded to Gezira State, south of Khartoum, forcing an estimated 600,000 people to flee, adding to the 7.4 million already displaced. Shakir Elhassan, a CARE worker, shares his experience of being displaced twice, emphasizing the expanding nature of the conflict, which continues to move from state to state.

Despite the challenging context, CARE continues to provide support alongside local and global partners in South and East Darfur, South Kordofan, Gadarif, and Kassala.

 While operations were suspended in Gezira State in December, CARE's teams focused on health, water and sanitation, nutrition, cash assistance, agriculture, and livelihood activities. In 2023, CARE reached more than 1.2 million people with humanitarian assistance in Sudan.

_{Source: UN, 2023 CARE Report}