Africa: WHO Director-General’s Remarks At the International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and Its Neighbours

Your Excellencies,

I would like to start by thanking France, Germany and the European Union for hosting this important meeting,

You have heard today about the catastrophic death, displacement, destruction, and hunger in Sudan.

And yet the scale of this catastrophe far outstrips the international attention it deserves.

It makes me so sad, because it is personal to me because I have been close to Sudan all my life – not only that, but because I am from that restive region.

The sum of all of this…