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necessary fuel and supplies. In addition to these efforts, ERRs have maintained vital water and communication infrastructure, ensuring that communities remain connected and have access to clean water. They also run community kitchens that feed millions of people, addressing the severe food shortages caused by the conflict. EERs has also been active in responding to
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As of February 2024, ERRs have provided help for more than four millions. These volunteers have successfully evacuated tens of thousands of people from conflict zones, provided essential services such as clean water and medical supplies, and have kept the few operational hospitals stocked with
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Nevertheless, ERRs have faced significant challenges, including being targeted by both sides of the civil war, including arrest and abduction, rape, and killing. For example, three ERRs volunteers were killed in 2023 while trying to assist civilians in Al Fiteihab,
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stated that there is a "need to significantly ramp up direct funding for Emergency Response Rooms – not only providing essential services but demonstrating our commitment to supporting civilian rule in Sudan."
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on 12 April 2024, the European Union "applauds the bravery and commitment of local and international humanitarian workers, particularly local NGOs and Emergency Response Rooms".
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From hunger to death: An estimate of excess mortality in Sudan, based on currently available information
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The Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) in Sudan is a community-led initiative that emerged from the
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How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support (UPDATED) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
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Most ERRs are not legally registered. ERRs are community funded but also receives funds from
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Rethinking International Engagement with Sudan Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs)
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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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Nasir, Rawh; Rhodes, Tom; Kleinfeld, Philip (2023-08-02).
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Index


Grassroots
NGO
Humanitarian aid
states
Khartoum State
White Nile State
Sennar State
Kassala State
Al Qadarif State
Northern State
River Nile State
North Darfur
Sudanese resistance committees
Sudan Doctors' Syndicate
Khartoum State ERRs
Arabic
resistance committees
2019 revolution
Sudanese civil war
Sudanese Armed Forces
Rapid Support Forces
European Union
U.S. Representative
Ilhan Omar
Sudanese resistance committees
2019 revolution
Sudanese civil war
Sudanese Armed Forces
Rapid Support Forces

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