France, April 15 -- Top diplomats from France, Germany and the European Union are set to push for more funding for Sudan on Monday at a meeting in Paris to mark the first anniversary of the war. NGOs and Sudanese civil society also hope that the meetings will hold Sudanese military leaders to account.

France is seeking contributions from the international community, and attention to what officials say is a crisis pushed out of the global conversation by the other ongoing conflicts such as those in the Middle East or Ukraine.

A ministerial meeting on political matters is to be accompanied by talks about the humanitarian situation in Sudan, which organisers said would include dozens of representatives of Sudan's civil society.

"The idea ...