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Vol 66 No 8

Published 18th April 2025


Sudan

Cash, platitudes but no peace

About US$750 million in fresh humanitarian aid – €522m ($592m) from the European Union and £120m ($158m) from the United Kingdom – was on the table along with plenty of platitudes at the Sudan ministerial conference in London hosted by the British government. Strikingly absent were any new ideas on how to end two years of civil war, let alone pressure on the main financiers of the war – the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya, Turkey and Saudi Arabia – who all accorded invitations to the meeting. Some delegates mulled the idea of a contact group, operating via the war’s main financiers, to pressure the rival factions.

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