On the threat of famine following the spread of conflict in Sudan
B-9-2024-0076
on behalf of the Renew Group · Rapporteur: María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Petras Auštrevičius, Malik Azmani, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Dita Charanzová, Olivier Chastel, Bernard Guetta, Svenja Hahn, Michael Kauch, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Karen Melchior, Javier Nart, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Dragoş Pîslaru, Frédérique Ries, Ramona Strugariu, Dragoş Tudorache, Hilde Vautmans
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Parliament's resolution on the threat of famine following the spread of conflict in Sudan calls for a halt to fighting, unrestricted humanitarian access and a negotiated peace agreement.¶ It condemns the violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), attacks on civilians and disregard for humanitarian ceasefires.¶ It denounces military support by the United Arab Emirates to the RSF and Egyptian military help to SAF, and notes the RSF's association with the Russian mercenary group Wagner.¶ It calls on the Commission and Member States to increase funding and humanitarian assistance, and to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights violations.¶¶
Key points
- Urges all parties to halt military activities, grant unrestricted humanitarian access and resume talks for a negotiated peace agreement.¶
- Condemns persistent violence between both armed factions, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, disregard for humanitarian ceasefires and assaults on humanitarian organizations and aid stocks.¶
- Denounces increasing evidence of military support by the United Arab Emirates to the RSF and Egyptian military help to SAF, and emphasizes the RSF's association with the Russian mercenary group Wagner.¶
- Expresses deep concern over the conflict's escalation into grain-producing regions such as South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Gadarif, the decline in agricultural activities and the risk of spillover to neighbouring countries.¶
- Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure continued and increased funding and humanitarian assistance and to reinforce the humanitarian-development nexus through localised approaches.¶
- Reiterates its call to the EU and its Member States to implement measures safeguarding human rights and to impose sanctions against individuals responsible for human rights violations through the EUGHSR mechanism.¶
Who is affected
- Parties to the conflict in Sudan, who are urged to halt military activities and grant humanitarian access.¶
- The Commission and Member States, which are asked to increase funding and humanitarian assistance.¶
- The EU and its Member States, which are asked to impose sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights violations.¶
Figures and deadlines
- over 7.4 million people forcibly displaced within Sudan and beyond since hostilities began on April 2023¶
- approximately 18 million people facing acute hunger, among whom 5 million are at emergency levels of hunger¶
- around 13.6 million children in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian support¶
- life-saving food supplies for almost 1.5 million severely food-insecure people over one month stolen from the WFP warehouse in Al-Jazira¶