SUDAN
On the morning of 15 April 2023, a war began in Sudan. In over two years, it has generated one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
More than 30 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, 12 million people have been displaced, 26 million people face high levels of acute food insecurity.
Health facilities have not been spared: there have been more than 100 attacks in two years. As of April 2025, one in five facilities is no longer functional.
70% of the Sudanese population cannot access health services.
EMERGENCY’s work in Sudan
EMERGENCY immediately reshaped its activities in Sudan to continue guaranteeing adequate paediatric and cardiac care. We are the only international organisation that has always remained operational in Khartoum.
We have faced many obstacles, both direct and indirect consequences of the war: shortages of blood and its components, a scarcity of medicines and fuel, an inability to ensure staff turnover due to difficulties in procuring visas, several staff members leaving the country in search of safety, the looting of our Paediatric Centre in Nyala.
Stories from the field
EMERGENCY USA Board Member Speaks at EACTS Annual Meeting
In October, EMERGENCY surgeon Dr Emily Farkas shared the work of the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery at the EACTS Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. Our hospital in Sudan provides free, high-quality cardiac care in a region where rheumatic heart disease remains endemic. Since 2007, we’ve performed more than 10,000 open-heart surgeries, demonstrating that excellence and…
“It is as if Salam had come to our house”: EMERGENCY’s Satellite Cardiology Clinics in Sudan
With over 12 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), the war in Sudan has generated what the UN has called the world’s most devastating displacement crisis. Before April 2023, Sudan was already hosting more than a million refugees from several African countries. When conflict broke between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), millions more…
Sudan: Two Years of War
Fighting has ceased in Khartoum, but violence continues in Darfur: updates from Sudan, after two years of war Two years have passed since 15 April 2023, when a war broke out in Sudan fought between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). During these two years, we have never left the…