US to provide another $424m in aid to Sudan

The United States is to give a further $424 million in humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan, Reuters has reported. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the announcement on Wednesday.

Civil war erupted in mid-April last year out of a power struggle between the Sudanese army (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule.

“More than 25 million Sudanese face acute hunger. Many are in famine… and some 11 million have fled their homes in what has become the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet,” said Thomas-Greenfield.

“We must compel the warring parties to accept humanitarian pauses in Al-Fashir, Khartoum and other highly vulnerable areas, eliminate barriers to humanitarian access along all routes, and put down their weapons and come to the negotiating table.”

The announcement takes total US aid funding since the war began to $2 billion, explained the US mission to the UN.

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