Humanitarian situation in Sudan
A Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Sudan is scheduled for Tuesday 22 July 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Harpreet Upal MP.

This is a Debate Pack for the debate on ‘Foreign policy and development aid in Central Africa and East Africa', in the Chamber on Monday 25 January 2016. Debate Packs are collections of parliamentary and other relevant material produced for most non-legislative debates in the Chamber and Westminster Hall, other than half-hour adjournment debates.
Foreign policy and development aid in Central Africa and East Africa (227 KB , PDF)
Central Africa and East Africa are closely interconnected regions. In fact, some countries can be counted in both categories. For example, the East African Community, a regional intergovernmental organisation, has Rwanda and Burundi – often described as Central African – as members, as well as Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The list of countries which have been called one or the other runs to at least eight:
Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Chad, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
These are the countries we have focused on in this debate pack. This means that, apart from the statistics provided in section 2, other countries which are sometimes also included in these categories, such as Ethiopia or South Sudan, are not covered by this pack.
DFID currently has bilateral aid programmes in five of the eight countries covered by this debate pack: DRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The bilateral aid programme in Burundi, which over the last year has slipped back into political crisis and violence, was closed during the last parliament – a decision which has been criticised, including by the International Development Committee. There are now calls for the programme to resume once the current crisis is over.
The ongoing Bilateral Aid Review will reveal which countries have been selected for bilateral aid programmes over the current parliament. It is important to note that countries for which there is no bilateral aid programme nonetheless receive UK aid through multilateral organisations that the UK supports.
Foreign policy and development aid in Central Africa and East Africa (227 KB , PDF)
A Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Sudan is scheduled for Tuesday 22 July 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Harpreet Upal MP.
States have pledged reforms to scale up funding to meet the sustainable development goals. But aid from major donors fell in 2024 and more falls are expected.
The briefing sets out international commitments on freedom of religion or belief, reports of discrimination, and UK international work on the issue.