Khartoum, Sudan - May 20, 2024 Diplomats and aid officials from around the world are meeting Tuesday in London to try to ease the suffering from the 2-year-old war in Sudan, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 14 million and pushed large parts of the country into famine. The one-day conference, hosted by Britain, France, Germany, the European Union and the African Union, has modest ambitions. It is not an attempt to negotiate peace, but an effort to relieve what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Attendees include officials from Western nations, international institutions and neighboring countries — but no one from Sudan. Neither the Sudanese military nor the rival paramilitary it is fighting has been invited.