Canada Pledges $120M for Sudan Crisis

0:00It's April 15. This is Calgary News today, driven by AI. Sudan's Civil War hits its fourth year today, sparking the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand just announced another $120 million in aid, split between emergency relief and long-term development. The fighting kicked off between the military and paramilitary groups, turning into ethnic clashes in Darfur. Now the country's split, with the recognized government and cartoon, facing off against rapid support forces in the West. The United Nations says 34 million people, two-thirds of Sudan's population need help right now. More than 13 million folks have been forced from their homes, and at least 40,000 are confirmed dead, though aid workers believe the. Real number is way higher. Hunger is being weaponized, hospitals are getting hit, and women and girls face nonstop sexual violence. Here this week at a Berlin conference, Canada pledged $25 million for schools, trauma

1:03care, and preventing sexual attacks through. Groups like Save the Children and the UN, Germany chipped in over $343 million, too, but Sudan's cartoon government called the whole thing meddling. Canada has now topped up its total pledges to over $220 million for Sudanese at home and abroad, with global courts eyeing genocide claims and aid groups pushing for more focus, the world can't look away from this nightmare.