Westminster Hall
8 September 2026
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Westminster Hall House of Commons
00:21 - 00:26
Speaker 1
Order, Nashaba Khan to move the motion.
00:26 - 02:16
Speaker 2
I beg to move that this House has considered the conflict in Sudan. Thank you, Dr. Alan Khan. May I start by saying what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship. I'm pleased to have been able to secure this debate today as it comes at a critical moment. The war in Sudan is now entering its fourth year and has been labeled the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Yet, for some reason, it still barely registers in political discourse. Last week, a humanitarian convoy delivering life-saving aid to Kadugli, where communities are at risk of famine, was attacked. A UN report found that sexual violence is widespread and being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. The same report found that at least 13 victims died, mostly after brutal gang rapes, with the youngest victim only nine years old. For millions of Sudanese people, this war is a daily struggle for survival.
I suspect many people in this country could not explain why a paramilitary force operating in Sudan now stands accused of genocide. That gap between the scale of what is happening and the attention it receives is part of the reason it has been allowed to go on for so long. Just now, I was listening to the Foreign Secretary's statement on the banning of Israeli goods in illegal settlements. The chamber was packed, and rightly so. I would argue that this crisis requires the same attention from us.
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