By Miranda Murray<\/p>\n
BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) – Germany will provide a further 20 million euros ($23.6 million) to Sudan this year, the development ministry \u200csaid on Wednesday, ahead of an international aid conference hosted in \u200cBerlin that is aiming to gather more than $1 billion in funding commitments.<\/p>\n
Sudan’s war between the Sudanese \u200barmy and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which enters its third year on Wednesday, has caused widespread hunger and displaced millions of people amid one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n
The conference was aimed at keeping attention on Sudan \u200camid wars raging in Ukraine \u2060and Iran, whose effects are felt more acutely by European governments, and the United States’ decreased interest in humanitarian aid, \u2060German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
NOT A QUICK FIX<\/p>\n
“This isn’t a quick fix,” he said, “but keeping international attention on the humanitarian situation in \u200bSudan is \u200ba substantial contribution to bringing the \u200bwar to an end.”<\/p>\n
Wadephul said Germany \u200cwas speaking with both warring parties, but neither side was attending the conference because they had not agreed to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n
The Sudanese government on Wednesday called the conference plans a “surprising and unacceptable” interference in its internal affairs and warned that engaging with paramilitary groups would undermine state sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Germany’s development ministry said \u200cahead of the conference that it would \u200bexpand Sudan aid by 20 million euros this \u200byear after providing 155.4 million \u200beuros at the end of last year.<\/p>\n
Germany aimed to gather \u200cfunding pledges of at least $1 billion, \u200badded Wadephul.<\/p>\n
It was \u200bnot only an ethical obligation to ensure people did not face hunger, he said, but also in Germany’s interest to avoid facing a large \u200bmigration influx similar to \u200cthe one from the Middle East in 2015\/16 as people were \u200bforced to flee.<\/p>\n
($1 = 0.8483 euros)<\/p>\n
(Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Muralikumar \u200bAnantharaman, Linda Pasquini and Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Miranda Murray BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) – Germany will provide a further 20 million euros ($23.6 million)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5006,5,4836,468,4955,4137,5007],"class_list":{"0":"post-4956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-development-ministry","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-humanitarian-aid","11":"tag-johann-wadephul","12":"tag-rapid-support-forces","13":"tag-sudan","14":"tag-sudanese-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}