UN Fact Finding Mission into El-Fasher<\/a>\u00a0as bearing \u201cthe hallmarks of genocide\u201d, including mass killings, ethnic targeting, and systemic sexual violence against women and girls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Foreign Secretary confirmed the UK will protect its \u00a3146 million humanitarian package for Sudan, including more than doubling support for frontline responders and local aid groups, including Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs),\u00a0to reach over 1.8 million people in need, helping fund lifesaving work to those\u00a0impacted\u00a0by violence and starvation. ERRs\u00a0work neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood to deliver food, water, medicine, sanitary supplies\u00a0and psychological support in some of the hardest to reach areas.<\/p>\n
The UK has also doubled funding to local human rights defenders to ensure they can play a crucial role in the documentation and investigation of violations.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Secretary said:\u00a0<\/p>\n
After 3 years of brutal war, the world can no longer claim it does not know what is happening in Sudan.<\/p>\n
Today, in Berlin, I will call for the international community to join in a shared resolve: to secure a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution \u2013 to stop the suffering and allow the people of Sudan to determine their own peaceful future.<\/p>\n
Sudan\u2019s civilians are already doing their part. Their courage is inspiring. That is why we are protecting the UK\u2019s humanitarian support to Sudan and doubling our funding to these local responders, helping them to reach nearly 2 million people. The world must now stand with them and renew our determination to bring this war to an end.<\/p>\n
Since the conflict began, UK aid has reached more than 2.5 million people: children pulled back from the brink of starvation, delivering water and medicine to hard-to-reach areas, and providing women and girl survivors of sexual violence with protection and care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Foreign Secretary will use the conference to galvanise global support for Sudan, driven by an immediate moral imperative and pressing global security concerns. She will call for greater pressure on the warring parties, demanding they tear down the barriers to aid access and cease attacks on civilians and aid workers, warning of consequences should they\u00a0fail to\u00a0agree a credible way forward for a peaceful and civilian-led Sudan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Background<\/p>\n
\tthe UK has\u00a0allocated\u00a0\u00a3146 million aid funding for Sudan in the financial year 2026 to 2027, prioritising Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding to Sudan and maintaining the UK\u2019s commitment as a leading donor to the conflict response
\n\tthe UK has more than doubled the proportion directly\u00a0allocated\u00a0to Sudanese local aid groups from \u00a36 million up to \u00a315 million, including to the Emergency Response Rooms through our partnership with non-governmental organisation Proximity 2 Humanity
\n\tthe UK has also doubled funding to local Sudanese human rights defenders, who play a crucial role in the documentation and investigation of violations, and shining a spotlight on the suffering of affected communities, through UK support to the Sudan Witness project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK to protect Sudan aid pledge and double funding to frontline responders as Foreign Secretary visits International Sudan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3974,5210,6921,5313,3976,5591,6922,710,6918,6917,6923,6924,6609,645,6919,6920,6915,6914,6916,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-15111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-april","9":"tag-assistance","10":"tag-background","11":"tag-berlin","12":"tag-commonwealth","13":"tag-conference","14":"tag-cooper","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-emergency","17":"tag-errs","18":"tag-fact","19":"tag-fasher","20":"tag-foreign","21":"tag-international","22":"tag-response","23":"tag-rooms","24":"tag-secretary","25":"tag-sudan","26":"tag-sudanese","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116410158962523300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}