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2024-12-29 Africa Horn

Sudan: First war-time aid convoy enters besieged south Khartoum

[NEWARAB] Civilians in a besieged area south of Sudan
Sudan

...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
's war-torn capital received their first aid convoy this week since the war began 20 months ago, local volunteers said.

A total of 28 trucks arrived in the Jebel Awliya area, just south of Khartoum, the state's emergency response room (ERR), part of a volunteer network coordinating frontline aid across Sudan, said Friday.

The convoy included 22 trucks carrying food from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), one truck from Doctors Without Borders and Care, and five trucks loaded with medicine from the UN children's agency, UNICEF.

The local group and UNICEF said the supplies would help meet the "urgent health and nutrition needs of an estimated 200,000 children and families".

Jebel Awliya is one of many areas across Sudan facing mass starvation after warring parties cut off access.

Since the war began in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, nothing has gone in or out without both parties' approval.

ERR volunteers endured months of negotiations, constant suspicion and threats of violence to secure even limited access.

"Access to the area has been essentially cut off due to the conflict dynamics," UNICEF's Sudan representative Sheldon Yett said, adding it took three months of talks to get the convoy through.

"The trucks were detained on more than one occasion, and drivers were understandably reluctant given the risks involved," he told AFP.

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