Overview

• The United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued a joint call for humanitarian pauses in Sudan, citing a rapidly worsening crisis.
• The communiqué, delivered also in the name of Switzerland, the United Nations and the African Union, presses the warring parties to remove bureaucratic obstacles and keep key supply corridors open.
• It urges a sustained UN humanitarian presence in hard-hit areas such as Darfur and Kordofan and calls for the restoration of telecommunications to support relief operations.
• The conflict between Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhane’s army and Gen. Mohamed Hamdane Daglo’s RSF has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced, with the UN describing the situation as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
• MSF reports Sudan’s worst cholera epidemic in years fueled by the war, while commentary highlights cuts to Western aid budgets that risk further weakening the response.