Peace is the only hope for progress and to prevent further humanitarian catastrophe.
From 1983 to 1993, an estimated 1.5 million people died as a direct result of the war and its consequences. This is a conservative estimate, say the agencies, which excludes the death toll in the last five years. Currently an estimated 4 million Sudanese are displaced internally or as refugees, having fled their homes due to conflict. Humanitarian assistance alone, in a political vacuum, will not solve Sudan's problems nor stop the next famine. What we need is political will to end the war.