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The United Nations warned that severe funding shortages are undermining efforts to protect civilians and deliver humanitarian aid in Sudan’s Kordofan region, where escalating violence has left communities increasingly exposed to killings, rape and displacement.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told Al Jazeera that the organization’s agencies are facing major difficulties in providing relief due to severe funding shortages at a time when the number of refugees and displaced people continues to rise sharply.
Dujarric added that the United Nations will engage with all parties next week in an effort to halt the conflict, stressing the need for urgent international support to ensure the continuation of humanitarian operations.
The U.N. spokesperson called on the international community and donors to provide funding as quickly as possible and stressed that influential states must use their leverage to pressure both the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces to stop the fighting.
He emphasized that the United Nations cannot operate alone amid the current complexities and the multiple political and field challenges.
Dujarric stressed that the growing pattern of violations has left civilians “in a vulnerable position” and made it increasingly difficult to deliver humanitarian aid to those who need it.
The three Kordofan states, North, West and South, continue to witness heavy fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, part of a war that broke out in April 2023 and has since killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 13 million people.
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