DOHA: US President Donald Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos on Saturday called the war in Sudan “the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis,” telling AFP he hoped to see diplomatic progress toward peace.
Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million.
At the end of October, the paramilitary group seized control El-Fasher, the conclusion of a bitter 18-month siege for the strategic hub in western Sudan’s Darfur region and marked by reports of mass killings and sexual violence.
“The conflict in Sudan, the humanitarian side of this conflict, is the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis today, and the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe,” Boulos told AFP in an interview in Doha.
“Especially what happened in El-Fasher in the last two or three weeks. We’ve all seen those videos. We’ve seen those reports. Those atrocities are absolutely unacceptable. This must stop very quickly.”
