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Sudan: Sanitation and Water

Commons · Question 39439 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 8 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to (a) water and (b) sanitation in Sudan.

Answer

Answered by Hamish Falconer, 8 Apr 2025

The conflict in Sudan is causing a nationwide humanitarian crisis - the most severe and largest globally with over 30 million people in need. Water access remains woefully inadequate in part due to the targeting of water supply infrastructure by armed act...