Sudan: Sudan's Aid Crisis Is Also a Crisis of Accountability

New York, United States — "What is needed is structural change: defining red lines... and being willing to escalate when those lines are crossed, publicly and collectively."

The images that stay with me the most from my time serving as Sudan's deputy humanitarian coordinator, focused on Darfur in 2024 and 2025, are familiar ones: people fleeing with nothing, children weakened by hunger, hospitals struggling to function.

Yet what I left with was not just the images of a humanitarian tragedy. It was the conviction that Sudan's crisis is, at its core, a crisis of accountability - owed at every level.