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Trump's Africa envoy says Sudan 'world's biggest humanitarian crisis'

Sudanese people displaced from El-Fasher and other conflict-affected areas receive aid distributed in cooperation with the Turkish Red Crescent and the Sudanese Red Crescent at the El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, on November 14, 2025. [AFP]

US President Donald Trump's Africa envoy Massad Boulos on Saturday called the war in Sudan "the world's biggest humanitarian crisis", telling AFP he hoped to see diplomatic progress towards peace.

Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million.

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