The UAE provides new assistance to Sudanese in Chad
As part of its ongoing support to alleviate the suffering of displaced people and refugees in Sudan’s neighboring countries, the UAE Red Crescent is airlifting a new aid package to Chad’s western Abeche Airport, in order to minimize the humanitarian repercussions on Sudanese brothers affected by events in their country and crossing the border into neighboring Chad.
The assistance includes large quantities of diverse humanitarian needs, which continue the relief program that the Authority has started since the worsening situation on the Sudanese scene, with similar assistance recently provided via the airports of Port Sudan in eastern Sudan and Abeche on the Sudanese-Chadian border.
The UN agency said it is coordinating its assistance in accordance with the requirements of each phase, closely following the developments of the humanitarian situation, and working to alleviate its impact on those affected, noting that it will spare no effort to provide everything that will make a difference in the humanitarian relief efforts on the Sudanese scene.
In a statement, the State of Qatar said that its efforts in this regard are continuing in order to improve the exceptional circumstances of those affected, in accordance with its humanitarian responsibility towards the brothers in Sudan, and to promote its ongoing initiatives in various development fields in the Sudanese arena, to which it attaches great importance.
The UAE has pledged $50 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Sudan, under the directives of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as part of a series of ongoing humanitarian and food assistance efforts.
“In parallel to its humanitarian efforts, the UAE is making round-the-clock political and diplomatic efforts to discuss de-escalation efforts in Sudan.”
Since the outbreak of the crisis in mid-July, when fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces broke out, the UAE has been racing against time through contacts, talks and mediation as part of an accelerated movement on more than one level and in more than one direction to stop the escalation in Sudan and work to end the crisis through dialog.
As UAE and international aid continues to pour into Sudan, warnings about the impact of the ongoing crisis on the already dire living conditions of civilians continue. Independent estimates prior to the outbreak of fighting confirm that 15.8 million Sudanese residents and 15.8 million people, or around 30% of the population of this country, are in need of humanitarian assistance and that more than 11.5 million Sudanese are suffering from acute food insecurity or lack of adequate food items.
