Sudan's war is sustained by foreign money and Colombian mercenaries, rights groups say, as famine spreads and victims press the ICC to probe the UAE's role.
SUDAN · GEOPOLITICS
Key Facts
—World’s largest crisis: Sudan’s war, now in its third year, has become the planet’s gravest humanitarian emergency.
—Roughly 150,000 dead: That is the widely cited estimate of lives lost since the fighting erupted in April 2023.
—Half the population hungry: About 21 million people face acute hunger, and famine is spreading across Darfur and Kordofan.
The crisis in Sudan has become ‘a grave human rights and protection emergency’, the United Nations mission says.
Nearly three years of war have displaced 14 million people and pushed 21 million into acute hunger.
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