UN says Sudan 2023 aid appeal 14% funded, $1.5 bn short

The United Nations said Tuesday that its 2023 aid appeals for Sudan were $1.5 billion short and only 14 percent funded, with the country gripped by fighting.

“The $1.75 billion joint appeal for Sudan in 2024 is only 14 percent funded. In other words… facing a funding gap of $1.5 billion,” Jens Laerke, the UN humanitarian agency’s spokesman, told a briefing in Geneva, while the UN’s migration agency said 334,000 people had been internally displaced by the fighting between the army and paramilitaries, which broke out in mid-April.