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The UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, has witnessed first-hand the harrowing impact of Sudan’s civil war on refugees crossing into Chad. Every day families, predominantly women and children, are fleeing the war and famine in Sudan and heading towards Adré border post where they are met by aid workers. Lammy, who spearheaded a failed UN ceasefire resolution in 2020, wants to “bring the world’s attention” to the suffering of those escaping the conflict. In addition to tales of widespread slaughter, mutilation and sexual violence, the refugees are also facing famine and hunger.
Many are separated from their families and are desperate to know whether their relatives have made it over safely. Aid workers are trying to reunite families, though some mothers have been forced to abandon children as they couldn’t carry them all. The conflict in Sudan has left over 12 million people displaced from their homes with more than half of the estimated 50 million civilians in desperate need of humanitarian aid, according to unnamed UN agencies. Speaking to the BBC, Lammy stated that ordinary families were “fleeing violence, of murder in their families, of rape, of torture, of mutilation.”
Lammy called for other donor countries to increase their support towards Sudan, a country currently in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The UK has already doubled aid to £200m ($250m), however, aid agencies have expressed concern over the newly inaugurated US President’s announcement of a 90-day freeze on foreign aid. The situation is already critical, with malnutrition rates among the highest in the world in Sudan leading to long-term effects that could last a lifetime for those affected.
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