Berlin hosts Sudan conference amid brutal, forgotten war
Key takeaways
- The war in Sudan has been raging for the past three years, and a ceasefire is nowhere in sight.
- Rival factions of the country's ruling military are engaged in bitter fighting, with around 150,000 people lost in the conflict so far.
- The subject of the conference that got underway in Berlin this Wednesday is the plight of the people of this East African nation.
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The war in Sudan has been raging for the past three years, and a ceasefire is nowhere in sight. Participants at a conference of donors in Berlin hope at least to ease the suffering of the people caught in the middle.
https://p.dw.com/p/5CEj OMillions of people in Sudan are dependent on foreign aid Image: Rian Cope/AFPAdvertisement Over the past three years, the most severe humanitarian catastrophe in the world has been unfolding in Sudan — largely unnoticed by the global community.
Rival factions of the country's ruling military are engaged in bitter fighting, with around 150,000 people lost in the conflict so far. Approximately 12 million Sudanese have been forced to flee, nearly a quarter of the country's population. Meanwhile, more than 33 million people within the country — about two-thirds of the population — are dependent on aid.