Unidentified speaker at public meeting calls Sudan humanitarian situation "catastrophic," urges large-scale aid mobilization

An unidentified speaker at a public meeting warned that the humanitarian situation in Sudan is "catastrophic" and urged a major international mobilization to deliver aid.

The speaker said, "The humanitarian situation in Sudan was already precarious and is now catastrophic. Reports of ****, torture, and ethnically motivated violence are streaming in. Grave and flagrant violations of international humanitarian and human rights law." The speaker added, "We believe that such a situation calls for a big mobilization. Now we need to deliver an avalanche of support."

The speaker gave specific details on displacement and need, saying, "More than 30,000,000 people will require humanitarian assistance this year," and that "war brings diseases," with high rates of malnutrition and groups most impacted being women and children. The speaker said convoys were moving "from Port Sudan going to Kadugli to Dili" and described daily arrivals of people fleeing across border towns in Chad, noting "Ethiopia is on the other side." The transcript includes the phrase "19 polar accrues" when describing disease indicators; that phrase is unclear in the record and may be a transcription error.

The speaker emphasized the regional impact, saying, "Sudan is in the grip of a crisis that is increasingly spilling over in the wider region," and that host countries are receiving increasing numbers of refugees. The speaker concluded with an appeal for an end to the fighting: "This war has to stop. Peace is the only solution," adding, "Without peace, they will not be able to go home and rebuild their lives."

No formal action or vote on the issue was recorded during the meeting. The remarks appeared during the public-comment portion of the meeting and were offered as appeals for urgent humanitarian assistance and a halt to the fighting in Sudan.