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Today, the United States, through USAID, announced over $130 million in additional urgently needed humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the ongoing crisis in Sudan. USAID Assistant to the Administrator Sarah Charles announced the funding during a high-level ministerial event on the humanitarian situation in Sudan and the region on the margins of the UN General Assembly. 

Today, the United States announced nearly $163 million in additional urgently needed humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the ongoing crisis in Sudan. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced the funding during her visit to Chad. This funding, which includes $60 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and nearly $103 million from the U.S. Department of State, builds on the continuing U.S. support to the people of Sudan and those across the region affected by the crisis. 

On World Humanitarian Day, we call on governments, local authorities, and combatants to prioritize the safety of aid workers and allow them to get critical aid to those who need it most – because the best way to honor the enormous courage and sacrifice of our humanitarian workers is by getting them the support and protection they deserve.

We, at USAID, are focused on the humanitarian needs of the people of Niger, and when it comes to food assistance and those humanitarian needs of course we will try to continue to meet those needs, but those needs are going to increase. Because what happens when this kind of illegal action occurs – when there is a rejection of democracy that the people of Niger worked so hard to build, you start to see the private sector leaving the country, you start to see embassies being evacuated. That is going to be very bad for the economy and very, very bad for the people of Niger.

Every day, we get new reports of flare ups of fighting in different parts of the country. Darfur, of course, is an epicenter of violence right now. But so is the capital Khartoum, which very few Sudanese could have imagined being wracked by a civil war like conflict, as it is now. Additionally, we're getting reports of looting of humanitarian facilities. And if you think of the ultimate embodiment of brutality, imagine a militia that both kills, committs sexual violence, and actually loots wheat and Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food for starving children. And that's what we're talking about here in terms of the depravity of some of the violence being perpetrated.