Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by / Halida Abbaro
00:37 Khadija / Displaced person from El Fasher
01:18 Mahmoud Ali Youssouf / African Union Commission Chair
01:41 Yvette Cooper / British Foreign Secretary
02:04 Massad Boulos / US presidential advisor

Script:

0:01
Sudan is facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.

0:05
In a new report, the United Nations says almost two-thirds of the population is now in urgent need of assistance.

0:15
More than 150-thousand people have been killed and over 11 million displaced, since war broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

0:30
The report found that poverty is now at its most extreme since the 1980s, with millions living under the threat of famine.

0:40
+++ SOT Khadija, Displaced person from El Fasher (Arabic) +++
"We were in El Fasher when the war started. It was terrible. If you can't find food for your children, they go without. There are no jobs. The only aid we get is from the United Nations." 

0:53
The UN says recovery is still possible if peace is restored... but warns that every month war continues, the more difficult it gets. 

1:03
At the Berlin conference, leaders from Europe and Africa are calling for an immediate humanitarian truce to allow peace talks to be revived. Above all, they want to draw the world's attention back to a conflict that---amid other global crises--is being forgotten.

1:17
+++ SOT Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission Chairperson (English) +++
"The lack of media coverage of what’s going on in Sudan is something which is unfortunate. And the most disastrous humanitarian catastrophe is right now unfolding in the Sudan. People are suffering. People are dying of starvation almost every day in the camps."

1:40
+++ SOT Yvette Cooper, British Foreign Secretary (English) +++
"The international community has failed the people of Sudan for too long. We have seen the most appalling atrocities. We have seen rape being used as a weapon of war almost on an industrial scale. /// As part of this conference the UK will be pledging 146 million this year for the people of Sudan."

2:07
+++ SOT Massad Boulos, Senior Advisor to the US President on Arab & Middle Eastern Affairs (English) +++
"The people of Sudan have suffered enough and that is why we have been calling for an immediate acceptance of this humanitarian truce."

2:12
With no leaders of the warring parties present, delegates face an almost insurmoutable challenge....to somehow succeed where ALL previous international efforts have failed.

But hopes are high that, at the VERY LEAST the event --the THIRD of its kind-- will mobilise enough aid to make a difference...

And serve as a wake-up call that the war in Sudan is not going away... and that the SUDANESE people are still suffering.

END