The money is distributed to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), SEK 60 million, and to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, SEK 40 million.
The support for WFP will go towards life-saving assistance in the form of, for example, food distribution, cash assistance for food and nutritional supplements, with a focus on the Darfur region and other famine-stricken areas.
UNHCR support goes to the organization's operations in Sudan and neighboring countries hosting Sudanese refugees. It includes money for health care, education, and work to prevent and combat sexual and gender-based violence.
The 100 million is taken from Sweden's core support to WFP and UNHCR respectively.
It's the worst place on earth. It's hard to grasp the scale of it. That there are so many people who are suffering, where there is a lack of clean water, a lack of food, a lack of practically everything and where we also see that sexual violence is used in warfare. We are getting reports of ethnic cleansing that we are not used to in modern history, says Dousa.
Could there be talk of more support from Sweden?
We are following the situation incredibly closely. Sudan has been an underreported disaster over the past year, which has also unfortunately led to a very extensive funding gap and currently a shortage of money.
According to the government, Sweden is one of the countries that gives the most to Sudan.
The support totals just over SEK 720 million so far in 2025, including the last 100 million.
Just over SEK 595 million is humanitarian aid and approximately SEK 125 million is development assistance.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
