{"id":31944,"date":"2026-04-15T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31944"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:26:14","slug":"germany-boosts-sudan-aid-as-berlin-seeks-1-billion-in-pledges","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/germany-boosts-sudan-aid-as-berlin-seeks-1-billion-in-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany boosts Sudan aid as Berlin seeks $1 billion in pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Germany will provide a further $23.6 million to Sudan this year, the Development Ministry said on Wednesday, ahead of an international \u200baid conference hosted in Berlin that is aiming to gather more than $1 \u200bbillion in funding commitments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sudan&#8217;s war between the Sudanese army and the \u2060paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which enters its third year on Wednesday, has caused widespread \u200bhunger and displaced millions of people amid one of the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian crises.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The conference \u200bwas aimed at keeping attention on Sudan amid wars raging in Ukraine and Iran, whose effects are felt more acutely by European governments, and the United States&#8217; decreased interest in humanitarian aid, German Foreign \u200bMinister Johann Wadephul told broadcaster\u00a0Deutschlandfunk\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a \u200bquick fix,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but keeping international attention on the humanitarian situation in Sudan is a substantial contribution \u200cto \u2060bringing the war to an end.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wadephul said Germany was speaking with both warring parties, but neither side was attending the conference because they had not agreed to a ceasefire.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Sudanese government on Wednesday called the conference plans a &#8220;surprising and unacceptable&#8221; interference in \u200bits internal affairs and \u200bwarned that engaging \u2060with paramilitary groups would undermine state sovereignty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Germany aimed to gather funding pledges of at least $1 billion, added Wadephul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15322,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-31944","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Germany will provide a further $23.6 million to Sudan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31945,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31944\/revisions\/31945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}