“Unfortunately, we are not seeing clear progress towards any solution,” he said, underlining that fighting still continues in much of the country: the Kordofans, Darfur and Blue Nile State.
“One thing to keep in mind is the Increased use of aerial bombing and drone strikes.”he added.
Airstrikes, rights abuses and sexual violence
Airstrikes have targeted civilian infrastructure “without warning,” Verney said, and serious human rights violations have continued, including massacres, forced recruitment and arbitrary detentions.
Women and girls are particularly at risk of conflict-related sexual violence, which “often takes place when they attempt to flee to safety,” it added.
In February, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said that More than 500 victims of sexual violence were identified in 2025 alone, while a record 11,300 civilians died that year. while many thousands remained missing or unidentified.
Millions are hungry
The world’s largest displacement crisis is also a hunger crisis, as noted by the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Sudan, Hongjie Yang, stressing that 21 million Sudanese now face acute food insecurity, including 6.3 million in the most serious state of food emergency.and.
Rural households in conflict zones such as Darfur and Kordofan are particularly under pressure, he said.
Food production capacities have been largely destroyed, particularly in Khartoum State, Mr Yang added, while the destroyed veterinary laboratory is unable to produce vaccines for livestock.
Health services “destroyed”
Meanwhile, essential health services in the country have been “shattered”, Dr Shible Sahbani, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Sudan, told reporters.
More than 40 percent of the country’s population needs urgent healthcare, hospitals are overflowing with patients and disease outbreaks are widespread, he said.
Access to health care is all the more difficult as attacks on hospitals that were still functioning have left them unusable.
In three years of war, the WHO has verified and documented More than 200 attacks on healthcare that caused 2,052 deaths.stated Dr. Sahbani, while health workers have been killed, injured, detained and tortured.
Impacts of the conflict in the Middle East
The UN health agency official also highlighted the recent impacts of the war in the Middle East on the provision of humanitarian aid to Sudan.
“Most agencies, like the WHO, have our main logistics center in the United Arab Emirates and what is happening now is really impacting our ability to respond,” as Humanitarian supply routes have been cut and the delivery of aid has become slower and more expensive..
“Fortunately, we had some supplies in the country so we could respond immediately… but now we are using up our stock and we need additional supplies to arrive,” he said.