Description: Germany’s development ministry has organized and hosted a humanitarian conference in the country’s capital where representatives from numerous governments and aid organizations aim at launching a larger budgetary support for humanitarian aid in war thorn Sudan. The conference arrives as the civil war in Sudan enters its fourth year while being labeled as the worst humanitarian disaster in the last couple of decades. Yvette Cooper, Britain’s foreign secretary, has pushed for increased financing of humanitarian operations pledging fifteen million pounds for volunteer networks such as the Emergency Response Rooms. The UN has repeatedly stated that Sudan is in dire need of a diplomatic platform for conflict resolution and primarily in grave need of humanitarian aid. The state of Kordofan is the most affected region where recent flashpoints of violence have displaced hundreds of civilians and killed dozens more. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have recently been accredited with a deadly drone attack in the Darfur region where two people were killed and fifty-six were additionally injured.
Impact: The conference in Berlin is highly unlikely to deliver any substantial results on both the peace platform and the facilitation of humanitarian aid. The conflict resolution in Sudan demands heavy diplomatic and political capital, and constant involvement while humanitarian aid is heavily restricted due to the constant violence and the use of drones in the war, which have increasingly changed the battlefield landscape on the ground. Due to the international community’s focus on wars such as the one in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza, Sudan’s civil war has been constantly neglected and marginalized while foreign military support and direct interference have aggravated the conditions on the ground. The conference is a symbolic step forward which intermittently puts Sudan back on the global crisis map, however, it would unlikely deliver concrete proposals for resolving the ample number of existing crises in the country.