Sudan: Where gold flows even while emergency aid doesn’tIn Sudan, humanitarian aid often gets blocked by the warring parties – even in places that are facing famine. Both sides are also cashing in on oil, gum arabic, livestock, and agricultural goods – and, closer to our beat, they even take rents from humanitarian aid. By June 2025, more than 500 aid workers had been killed in Gaza since Israel’s invasion in October 2023. The trends highlighted “point to a future where humanitarian aid operations are scarcer, more dangerous and less effective”, the report concluded. While a ceasefire has mostly held since late July, security forces have heavily restricted entry to Sweida, which many Druze consider a siege on the city.