BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) – Germany will provide an additional 20 million euros ($23.58 million) to Sudan this year, with further funding commitments currently under review, the development ministry in Berlin said in a statement on Wednesday.
At the end of 2025, the ministry had provided 155.4 million euros for projects in Sudan and in neighbouring countries affected by the war in Sudan, which it would expand this year by 20 million euros, it said ahead of an international aid conference on Sudan in the German capital later on Wednesday.
Sudan’s war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which enters its third year on Wednesday, has caused widespread hunger and displaced millions of people amid one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Germany aims to gather funding pledges of at least 1 billion euros at the conference. “That seems to be working,” Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
Ensuring enough funding for such crises, with wars in Iran and Ukraine also raging and the United States pulling back on aid commitments, is a Sisyphean task, he added.
“We must try to compensate for what others, including the United States, unfortunately fail to do,” he said.
It is also in Germany’s interest to make money available to ensure people do not face hunger, he said, to prevent a repeat of the large influx of migrants coming from the Middle East in 2015/16.
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(Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
