{"id":20076391,"date":"2024-03-08T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20076391"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:00:33","slug":"calls-for-humanitarian-aid-and-ceasefire-to-alleviate-suffering-in-sudan-ahead-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/calls-for-humanitarian-aid-and-ceasefire-to-alleviate-suffering-in-sudan-ahead-of-ramadan","title":{"rendered":"Calls for aid and ceasefire to alleviate suffering in Sudan ahead of Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United Nations Security Council will hold a special session later today to discuss a British draft resolution submitted to the council to impose an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, which should be implemented before the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday evening. Other calls for relief are coming from a variety of states in the country. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters reported that the draft resolution urges “all parties to ensure the removal of any obstructions and enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access, including cross-border and crossline, and comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resolution, if passed with the approval of nine members of the council and without objections from the permanent members, could open the way to temporarily stop the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has ravaged Sudan since April 15 last year, and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of Sudanese who face the famine in most parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Kordofan aid meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South Kordofan authorities held a five-hour long meeting with representatives of aid organisations operating in the state during which they discussed the humanitarian and health conditions of the people in Kadugli and Delling, both residents and displaced people, the South Kordofan Governor Mohamed Abdelkarim said in a press conference in Kadugli yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor referred to the organisations’ response and their commitment to providing urgent food aid to poor families, displaced people, and South Sudanese refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further said that it was an important development that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had reached an agreement with United Nations agencies to open the airports<\/a> of Kadugli, El Obeid in north Kordofan, and El Fasher in North Darfur for humanitarian purposes. Some land and river corridors will be opened too to facilitate the delivery of much-needed aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt represents a step towards the relief of the humanitarian and living conditions in the state and Sudan in general, as it will contribute to facilitating the arrival of medicines and food from the state’s share of foreign donations in Kosti and Port Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governmental Humanitarian Aid Commissioner (HAC) in the state, Fadlallah Abdelgader, spoke about \u201cthe need for coordination and development of partnerships with foreign and national organisations to serve the people of the state with humanitarian, service, and development support\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that \u201cthe next phase will witness a great movement of UN agencies, national and foreign organisations, and popular initiatives to coordinate interventions that respond to the people’s various needs for support\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Sudanese child is checked for malnutrition (File photo: UNICEF)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Calls for aid in Darfur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Services and Change Committees in the South Darfur capital of Nyala have called for speeding up the delivery of food aid to the people in the state, who are suffering from severe food shortages due to the war. The situation is desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed Idris, member of the committees in Nyala, told Radio Dabanga yesterday that \u201cmany people are constantly asking about the relief that has piled up in El Fasher since October last year, provided by the King Salman Relief Center\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouth Darfur’s share of King Salman’s relief is still in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, at a time when people in displaced persons camps and cities are d<\/a>ying of hunger<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All work activities and businesses that people depended on to earn their livelihood have stopped and the war prevented farmers from agricultural production last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the government approved the entry of aid into the country, the local authorities must speed up the delivery of aid to save the many lives now in danger,\u201d Idris urged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minni Minawi, leader of a breakaway Sudan Liberation Movement faction and governor of the Darfur region, has reportedly requested the Sudanese authorities to hold a \u201ccomprehensive conference with international organisations\u201d to discuss humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdelbagi Hamed, director of social welfare in the Darfur Regional Government and a member of the High Committee for Crisis Management in the region, told Radio Dabanga yesterday that Minawi also requested Lt Gen Ibrahim Jaber, chair of the Joint National Committee for Humanitarian Emergencies established in Port Sudan in early November last year, to restart \u201ctransporting relief items through the El Tina-El Fasher road, and from there to the rest of the war-torn Darfur states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis [Jaber\u2019s positive] response was quick, which deserves thanks and praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe humanitarian aid intended for the Darfur regions represents a small percentage of the total aid that reaches Sudan, which requires precise management to ensure that it reaches the beneficiaries without any political problems,\u201d Hamed explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both warring parties are accused of hindering humanitarian aid<\/a> as a weapon of war. \u201cThe war in Sudan risks triggering the world\u2019s largest hunger crisis<\/a>,\u201d warned the UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) executive director yesterday. <\/p>\n