UN appeals for $6 bn for Sudan crisis aid in 2025

The UN appealed Monday for six billion dollars to provide desperately-needed aid to people in war-ravaged Sudan, as the African country faced an emergency of "shocking proportions". The aim is to provide assistance to nearly 26 million people this year, the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA and refugee agency UNHCR said in a joint appeal. 

The UN agencies said the civil war has displaced 12 million people, including around 3.5 million who have fled the country. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of Sudan's population needs emergency aid, as swathes of the nation face famine conditions. "Sudan remains in the grip of a massive humanitarian crisis," UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said at the appeal launch in Geneva.