MSF Warns Sudan Health System Near Collapse Amid Funding Cuts

According to the BBC, Médecins Sans Frontières said Sudan's health system is close to collapse after global funding cuts forced healthcare facilities to close across the country. The charity said dozens of organisations could not replace funding after the United States closed USAID last year, while European governments also reduced aid, and it urged leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York to act. MSF said existing grants to many USAID-funded groups expired in June, while the OECD said global international aid fell 21.3% in 2025 from a year earlier. The charity said admissions rose 22.5% between January and April 2026 at facilities it supports in central Darfur, and 45 healthcare centres in the area stopped receiving funding in May. It also said maternity and surgical wards at Tanedba camp in Gedaref state have closed, and that aid agencies in Um Rakuba camp have fallen to fewer than 10 from 35 in 2021. MSF said attacks on healthcare workers continued as the war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces entered its third year. It said 1,620 people were killed in attacks on medical facilities in Sudan in 2025, accounting for 82% of global deaths from attacks on healthcare worldwide. The UN said more than 19.5 million people face crisis-level food insecurity and more than five million are at emergency levels of hunger.