The many ceasefires that have been announced are almost never respected and humanitarian aid is trickling down to the long-suffering population
Geneva is hosting a Saudi-sponsored conference today in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to Sudan, which has been trickling in to a country where war between two rival generals has raged for more than two months.
According to the UN, the war has worsened the humanitarian crisis in the country: now 25 of the 48 million Sudanese cannot survive without humanitarian aid.
Today’s Geneva conference aims to coordinate this aid, at a time when all UN agencies say they have received only a fifth of the resources they are requesting.
In addition to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Germany, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the European Union and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are participating in the conference, according to the Saudi government.
More than 2,000 people have lost their lives in the war since April 15according to the non-governmental organization ACLED, while the displaced and refugees number over 2.2 million.
The many ceasefires that have been announced and almost never respected have resulted in humanitarian aid trickling down to the long-suffering civilian population.
The situation is even more alarming in Darfura large area in the western part of the country.
Reports of large-scale violence against civilians there are mounting, and according to the UN more than 150,000 people have fled to Chad.
Its president, General Mahamad Idris Debi Itno, traveled to the border town of Andre on Saturday to “ensure the effective closure of the border,” his office said.
In recent days “6,000 people have left El-Jeneina”, the capital of West Darfur, for Andre, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
“The situation is frankly shocking,” said Seibou Diarra, MSF’s coordinator for the Andre region, which has received “622 wounded, most of them from bullets, in three days
Darfur, a country ravaged by a particularly bloody war in the 2000s, is heading for a new “humanitarian catastrophe” that the world must prevent, the UN underlined on Thursday.
The head of his mission in Sudan, Volker Pertes, who is henceforth an “unwanted person” in Khartoum, last Tuesday expressed “particular concern” about the situation in Darfur, where incidents of violence may amount to “crimes against humanity ».
Source :Skai
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