Humanitarian crisis worsens in Sudan

The humanitarian situation in Sudan deteriorated further this week as fighting spread to previously stable corridors, cutting off aid routes to an estimated two million people. Agencies now describe the crisis as the world's largest displacement emergency.

Warehouses in three regional hubs report stocks below two weeks' supply, and convoy movements have fallen by half since checkpoints multiplied along the main western routes. Negotiations over a humanitarian corridor continue in Geneva, so far without agreement on monitoring arrangements.

Aid officials stress that the crisis remains severely underfunded: the response plan is less than a third financed at midyear, forcing ration cuts even in accessible areas.