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The Khartoum and Juba governments yesterday renewed a bilateral memorandum of understanding allowing for the flow of 90,000 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of South Sudan.
The Sudanese Aid Commissioner, Ahmed Mohammed Adam, signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of Khartoum, while South Sudan’s Ambassador to Khartoum, Mayan Dott.
In a press conference held following the signing of the memorandum in Khartoum, Adam said that it comes in the context of Sudan’s efforts to support the humanitarian situation in South Sudan.
“There is going to be an extension for one year, not six months as we used to do before,” he added, noting that three paths have been opened for the flow of aid, and in order to reduce the flow of Southern Sudanese refugees into their northern neighbour and to mitigate the food shortage in South Sudan.
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The two countries signed the first memorandum of understanding regarding this issue on 9 July 2014.
The agreement allowed the World Food Programme to deliver 54,420 metric tonmes of relief aid to around 200,000 persons in the South Sudanese state of Upper Nile.
Last February, Juba and a number of United Nations agencies announced that a famine in South Sudan threatened five million persons of the population of 11 million.
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South Sudan, which seceded from the Sudan in 2011 by virtue of a popular referendum, is suffering from a civil war between governmental forces and forces affiliated to the opposition. The war, which has a tribal dimension, has resulted in the death of hundreds and the displacement of tens of thousands. A peace agreement reached in August 2015 did not put an end to the war.