Further, the exodus of refugees from Eritrea and Tigre underlines the current Crisis in the Sudan.

Mr. Malcolm Savidge (Aberdeen, North) (by private notice): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether she will make a statement on what action Her Majesty's Government are taking in response to the urgent and growing humanitarian Crisis in the Sudan.

Will he tell the House how we are responding to the Crisis in Sudan?

(by private notice): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether she will make a statement on what action Her Majesty's Government are taking in response to the urgent and growing humanitarian Crisis in the Sudan.

The cause of the terrible Crisis in Sudan is the civil war.

Mr. Savidge: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the Crisis in the Sudan.

Clare Short: The Crisis in Sudan was discussed during the EU Development Council meeting which I chaired on 18 May.

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions she has had with (a) non-governmental organisations and (b) aid agencies in the past three weeks over the Crisis in Sudan.

My officials maintain frequent contact with all NGOs and agencies helping to alleviate the Crisis in Sudan and regularly update me on the situation.

I addition, my officials maintain frequent contact with all agencies looking for a negotiated settlement to the Crisis in Sudan.

As I said to the hon. Gentleman, no one should play games with the Crisis in Sudan.

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps her Department is taking in response to the humanitarian Crisis in Sudan.

We are concerned about the humanitarian Crisis in Sudan, particularly in the south, and continue to urge all parties to give all possible help to the UN and NGOs to ensure speedy delivery of humanitarian assistance.

We continue to be deeply concerned about the humanitarian Crisis in Sudan, particularly in the south.

What contribution his Department is making to achieving peace and resolving the humanitarian Crisis in Sudan.

This has not as yet been properly done and reporting of the Crisis in Sudan is to that extent sadly inadequate".

"We also discussed the grave humanitarian and political Crisis in the Sudan, which my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development visited last week.

We discussed the grave humanitarian and political Crisis in Sudan, which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development visited last week.

The G8 issued a specific statement on Darfur and the Crisis in Sudan.

The Crisis in Sudan is there, the challenge is now, the scale is enormous and the contribution that we can make as an international community by providing the aid in a spot that probably exceeds anywhere else in the world in the scale and immediacy of its need is so great that talking about other places is not good enough.

I welcome my right hon. Friend's genuine efforts to resolve the Crisis in Sudan.

We consider that a sensible way forward in dealing with the Crisis in Sudan.

We consider that a sensible way forward in dealing with the particular Crisis in Sudan.

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Cox for introducing today's debate and for drawing attention to the deepening Crisis in Sudan.

With the Sudan Crisis only half solved, the tension inevitably begins to drift elsewhere.

Along with the Crisis in Sudan, Zimbabwe will be a key test of African co-operation and diplomacy.

A report received as recently as last week shows that the humanitarian Crisis in Sudan is getting worse, with aid agencies suggesting that targeted attacks on their workers are at their highest since the conflict began.

The issues discussed include: the Crisis in Sudan; Somalia, which is a failed state, with terrible consequences for the region; Zimbabwe; the Congo; poverty; HIV/AIDS; and malaria.

Part of the Crisis in Sudan is caused by the influx of refugees from conflicts over the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.

I want to reinforce what my hon. Friendthe Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) said about the current Crisis in Sudan.

Then, we moved swiftly on to rescuing people from Mount Sinjar, and all the time we had the ongoing Crisis in Sudan.