The United Nations called on countries in the Middle East and Europe on Monday to ramp up aid efforts in Sudan to address the deepening humanitarian crisis.
Sudan has been rocked by fighting for more than two months as the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battle for control of the country. Sudan's Health Ministry said Saturday that more than 3,000 have been killed in the conflict, which has decimated the country's fragile infrastructure and sparked ethnic violence in the western Darfur region.
Katja Keul, minister of state at Germany's Federal Foreign Office, said that Berlin would pledge 200 million euros of humanitarian assistance to Sudan and the region. It remained unclear if Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the conflict's key mediators, would provide further financial contributions to the humanitarian initiative.
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