The United States sent a disaster response team to Kenya to coordinate the delivery of aid to Sudan, after the impact of renewed fighting on the deteriorating humanitarian situation.
The director of the United States Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said that Washington “is moving to increase assistance to the people of Sudan, caught between warring factions” and added that this response team “will coordinate the humanitarian response for those in need inside and outside of Sudan”.
The team “will operate from Kenya in the initial response phase,” said the official, quoted by the Europa Press agency, and stressed that this team “is working with the international community and international partners to identify priority needs and see how to deliver vital humanitarian assistance. to those who need it most.”
Civilians who are “trapped in their homes have no access to desperately needed medicine and face the prospect of prolonged power, water and food shortages, and those who try to flee face violence in the streets,” said Samantha Power.
Lamenting the “nearly 16 million people who already needed humanitarian aid to meet their basic needs even before the outbreak of violence,” the official recalled that “the US was the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Sudan for more than a quarter century” and assured that “this commitment is unbreakable.
Violent clashes have been taking place in Sudan since April 15, in a conflict between the forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s leader since the 2021 coup, and a former deputy who has become a rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
The provisional balance of the clashes indicates that there are more than 420 dead and 3,700 injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source: TSF
