Arabic version: أزمة السودان تترك 35 مليون شخص بحاجة إلى المساعدات

According to France 24, 35 million Sudanese people need humanitarian assistance as the country faces what the broadcaster describes as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The report was issued on August 4, 2026, and features an interview with Dirk Segaar, the IFRC Special Envoy for Sudan, conducted by Camille Knight.

Segaar says Sudan’s crisis is among the defining but least visible crises of the 21st century. He argues that the conflict should not be viewed only through shifting frontlines or military developments, describing instead a broader breakdown affecting the country’s society, economy and institutions.

War has hollowed out public services, displaced entire communities and accelerated disease, according to the France 24 report. Humanitarian needs extend beyond active battlefields, it says, while the effects of conflict have spread through daily life and public systems.

The report portrays Sudan not simply as a conflict zone, but as a country experiencing cumulative social, economic and institutional collapse. Segaar’s account places the humanitarian emergency in the context of that wider deterioration, with millions of people requiring assistance.