Severe Funding Cuts Force Sudan Health Clinic Closures
Severe cuts to humanitarian funding are forcing health clinics across war-torn Sudan to close, leaving patients to travel further for treatment and pushing remaining hospitals towards the breaking point, Médecins Sans Frontières warns.
In refugee and displacement camps, maternity and surgical services have closed, forcing pregnant women to travel for hours to access emergency care. The number of aid organisations operating around Um Rakuba camp has fallen from about 35 in 2021 to fewer than 10. Some clinics have seen patient numbers collapse because people can no longer afford transport.
MSF said that the funding crisis was worsened by the closure of USAID programmes and reductions in international aid. Sudan’s $2.87 billion humanitarian response plan is only about 41% funded. Around 37% of the country’s health facilities are reportedly completely out of service as millions face hunger, displacement and severe malnutrition.
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![A village outside El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region lies silent after an attack.]()
Sudan’s war is facing renewed scrutiny over allegations that the Sudanese Armed Forces developed and deployed chlorine-based chemical weapons against the Rapid Support Forces during the battle for Khartoum.
Investigations by The New York Times and The Washington Post, based on more than 150 leaked intelligence documents, photographs, videos and intercepted communications, reportedly detail an alleged
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has strongly condemned an aerial attack on aid trucks conveying a large food supply destined for hungry families in South Kordofan State.
“Attacks on aid workers and humanitarian operations are unacceptable and must stop,” WFP said in a statement, urging all sides to uphold international humanitarian law.
WFP said the attack was the latest example of the complex
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![A woman stands outside her tent four months after fleeing the city of from El Fasher in Darfur following an attack.]()
The United States has proposed expanding the UN arms embargo on Darfur to cover all of Sudan, as the country’s civil war enters its fourth year.
US Envoy Massad Boulos told the UN Security Council that weapons and financial support from outside powers are fuelling the conflict and proposed including drones and related technology under the embargo, as well as increasing monitoring.
Sudan has backed a
A paediatrician examines a child in the MSF-run inpatient therepeutic feeding centre at Zalingei Teaching hospital. Central Darfur state, Sudan, July 2026.
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