'World's largest humanitarian crisis Thirty five million Sudanese need humanitarian assistance'

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Sudan faces the world's largest humanitarian crisis with 35 million people requiring emergency assistance due to systemic societal collapse. Conflict has eroded public services, displaced communities, and accelerated disease, extending the crisis beyond active battlefields.

Camille Knight is pleased to welcome Dirk Segaar, IFRC Special Envoy for Sudan. Sudan's humanitarian crisis has become one of the defining yet least visible crises of the twenty first century. Segaar argues that the conflict can no longer be understood merely through the lens of shifting frontlines or military developments. Rather, he presents a picture of systemic societal collapse, in which war has hollowed out public services, displaced entire communities, accelerated disease, and created conditions where humanitarian need extends far beyond the active battlefields. Sudan is not simply a conflict zone but a nation experiencing the cumulative breakdown of its social, economic and institutional fabric.