The State Humanitarian Aid Commission in Sudan’s North Darfur State on Saturday said that the stoppage of humanitarian convoys from Al-Jazira State to El-Fasher has exacerbated the humanitarian situation among those affected by the war in the Darfur region.
Hassan Sabir, the officer in charge of Displaced Persons’ Affairs at the Humanitarian Aid Commission, said those who fled the war from the cities of Nyala, Zalingei, El Geneina, Khartoum, and the Tawila and Kutum localities to El Fasher and those internally displaced within the state, are living in deplorable conditions in centers and shelters in the town.
“There are more than 80 centers in El Fasher where people who fled the war are sheltering,” he said.
Sabir attributed the difficult situation to the cessation of humanitarian and commercial convoys that were arriving in the state and the rest of the cities of the region from Madani and Port Sudan under the protection of the joint forces.
“They stopped since November last year, and this created crises in the humanitarian and medical situation in most of the cities of Darfur,” he added.
The official appealed to the joint forces of the armed movements to resume escorting commercial and humanitarian convoys to the Darfur region.