More than five million people in Sudan need urgent assistance after new displacements in Darfur and a surge of refugees arriving from South Sudan, a top European Commission official said Wednesday.
The comments by Jean-Louis De Brouwer, operations director at the EC's Humanitarian and Civil Protection Department, came after the commission offered 12.5 million euros ($14 million) to the UN World Food Programme for supporting relief operations in Sudan.
"The humanitarian situation in many parts of Sudan is critical, as recent population displacements in Darfur and a surge of arrivals from South Sudan illustrate," De Brouwer said in a WFP statement
Source: NNA
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