Sudan's ERR emergency networks win Norway rights prize

Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), networks of volunteers risking their lives to feed and help people facing war and famine in the country, were on Wednesday awarded Norway's Rafto Prize for human rights work.

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Already one of the world’s poorest countries, Sudan has been ravaged by a deadly war since April 2023 between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), each side led by generals vying for power.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and driven more than 14 million from their homes, according to figures from the United Nations.

The UN has called it “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”, where famine has spread in parts of the country and cholera has affected large areas.

The Rafto Foundation honoured the ERRs “for their courageous work to preserve the most fundamental human right -- the right to life”.