The World Food Program says it is struggling to get aid to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and other areas seeing intense fighting and multiple failed cease-fires.
World Food Program spokeswoman for Sudan Leni Kinzli said Thursday the agency has started distributing food aid to people who have fled the fighting in what she described as"peaceful" locations.She said the aid would go to Sudan's eastern Kasala and Gedaref states as well as White Nile state, south of Khartoum.
Kinzli said intense fighting in and around Khartoum has prevented safe access the area, where millions of people are struggling to survive. Sudan's military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, have agreed to a few cease-fires, but none have taken hold."It makes it very difficult for us to provide assistance safely, so we continue to call on both parties to the conflict to adhere to the cease-fire and to all obligations under international humanitarian law, to protect humanitarian staff, humanitarian assistance and all assets and premises that are belonging to humanitarian organizations," said Kinzli.
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