Overview
- The Berlin conference, which ended Wednesday, produced pledges of about €1.5 billion for relief in Sudan and neighboring states, including €750 million from the EU and its members.
- Hosts issued a joint communiqué urging full humanitarian access across Sudan and an end to foreign support for the warring sides, but it set no concrete steps and did not call for an immediate truce.
- Local aid groups reported that Sudanese army drones struck the RSF-held Adukong crossing on the Sudan–Chad border during the meeting, killing three porters and injuring dozens while supplies burned.
- UN figures describe one of the world’s worst crises, with roughly 33–34 million people needing help and about 19 million facing hunger after three years of war between the army and the RSF militia.
- Forty Sudanese civic leaders in Berlin issued a joint call to end the war, start a Sudanese-led political process, and hold perpetrators of war crimes to account.