Millions displaced by Sudan's civil war risk losing access to emergency shelter as funding shortages leave aid warehouses empty, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Friday.
An estimated 15.4 million people across Sudan urgently need emergency shelter and essential household items. But funding shortfalls mean aid agencies can provide assistance to only around 10 per cent of those in need.
Just 936,000 people have received aid so far, highlighting the widening gap between urgent humanitarian needs and available resources, according to a joint statement.
Sudan remains the centre of the world's largest displacement crisis, more than three years after fighting broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over disputes including plans to integrate their forces during a proposed transition to civilian rule.
Around 8.6 million people remain displaced within Sudan, while more than 4.6 million have fled the country.
More than 5.2 million people have also returned home, only to find widespread destruction of housing, infrastructure and essential services.
Speaking from Khartoum during a UN briefing in Geneva, IOM's Sudan chief, Mohamed Refaat, warned that dwindling funds were threatening the agency's ability to deliver vital assistance.
“Just this year, IOM was able to distribute more than 40,000 tons, but our warehouses are completely empty now,” he said.
Despite the return of millions of people to their homes, Refaat warned that internal displacement could rise again. He said funding constraints had already forced humanitarian agencies to scale back their assistance targets.
“We decided to serve only one out of ten. But even within the one out of ten, we could reach only 900,000 people with what we had,” he said.
Aid agencies are calling for an urgent injection of international funding to restock emergency supplies and prevent conditions from worsening for millions of displaced Sudanese.
Without fresh financial support, they warn, millions could be left without adequate shelter or basic household essentials as the humanitarian crisis continues.
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