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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK to co-host global conference with aim of resolving Sudan’s civil war

Sudan's foreign minister, Ali Youssef, at a meeting next to Sudan flag
Sudan’s foreign minister, Ali Youssef, has written to David Lammy to protest against his exclusion from the conference. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty

The British government is bringing together foreign ministers from nearly 20 countries and organisations in an attempt to establish a group that can drive the warring factions in Sudan closer towards peace.

The conference at Lancaster House in London on 15 April comes on the second anniversary of the start of a civil war that has led to the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, but has been persistently left at the bottom of the global list of diplomatic priorities. Half of Sudan’s population are judged to be desperately short of food, with 11 million people internally displaced.

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