Juba & Khartoum extend agreement on humanitarian aid for another 6 months
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January 5, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC)
has announced an extension of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on
the transit of humanitarian aid to the neighboring South Sudan for
another six months.
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Staff from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) register displaced people
at the Eastern Bank transit camp in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el
Ghazal state on 29 August 2014 (ST)
The two countries signed a MoU last July to allow the expedition of
aid across its borders and through river transportation to feed
thousands of impacted civilians.
Sudan’s HAC commissioner Ahmed Mohamed Adam and South Sudan’s
ambassador to Khartoum Mayan Dut Wol and the representative of the
World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan Adnan Khan issued a joint
statement on Monday on the extension.
The statement pointed that Sudan’s government agreed to this extension
at the request of South Sudan’s government and in the spirit of
cooperation and due to the ongoing humanitarian needs.
Last August, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan said that representatives from
the governments of Sudan and South Sudan have approved an operational
plan that will create a humanitarian corridor between the two
countries.
The plan, which was developed and prepared by WFP, will enable the
latter to deliver close to 63,000 metric tonnes of life-saving food
assistance to 744,000 people in the northern parts of South Sudan who
have been affected by the conflict that erupted in South Sudan since
December 2013.
Under the initial deal, 1.853 metric tonnes of food have been
transferred across border and river transport to the needy population
in South Sudan.
Sudan Tribune recalls that the current MoU was set expire on January 8th, 2015.
Last May, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-Net) said
that about 3.5 million South Sudanese are in dire need of humanitarian
assistance. 2.4 million people face food insecurity at the Crisis
level and 1.1 million people are at the Emergency level.
The roughly 30 per cent of the population is mainly concentrated in
the troubled Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states which are not far
from the Sudanese border.
(ST)
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