Sudan Is “Collapsing” Amid Worst Humanitarian Crisis Ever Recorded, Report
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Urging world leaders “not to look away,” the US-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization has warned that Sudan is “collapsing” as it faces the “fastest” and “biggest” humanitarian crisis ever documented, Straight Arrow News (SAN) reports.
In its annual Emergency Watch List report published on December 11, the IRC said the ongoing Sudanese civil war that was triggered by a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has led to unprecedented famine and a catastrophic loss of innocent civilian life. An estimated 61,000 people have been killed since the war began in April 2022.
“The country’s collapse is accelerating as a brutal civil war, fueled by outside powers, devastates civilians. Sudan now holds two distressing records as the crisis there has displaced more people (14.6 million) and left more people in humanitarian need (30.4 million) than any other crisis since records began,” the IRC reports.
“One in 10 people in humanitarian need globally is in Sudan. Experts warn Sudan is heading toward one of the world’s worst famines in decades—making it emblematic of the world out of balance we describe in this year’s Watchlist,” the IRC reports. SAF and RSF leaders have spurned diplomatic resolution, believing their interests are best protected by continued fighting. Outside powers, instead of devoting themselves to restoring peace, have escalated the war by supplying more weapons,” the IRC noted.
The IRC placed Sudan at the top of its Emergency Watch List for 2025. Sudan is followed on the Emergency List by “Occupied Palestinian Territory (2), Myanmar (3), Syria (4), South Sudan (5), Lebanon (6), Burkina Faso (7), Haiti (8), Mali (9), Somalia (10).”
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