UN Secretary-General António Guterres Sunday called the President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of the Republic of the Sudan, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan.
According a press release from the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, the two discussed the movement of humanitarian aid through the Adre pass between Chad and Sudan.
The press statement further said that Guterres and Al-Burhan agreed to facilitate the movement of humanitarian supplies into Sudan.
“They also agreed that in parallel, the UN will work with the Sudanese authorities to put in place a simplified system for the expedited processing and delivery of humanitarian aid,” it says.
The former cross-border trade Adre city, has today become the passing point for people escaping civil war and famine in what some diplomats have termed the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”.
More than 600,000 people have reportedly fled from Sudan to Chad in the last 16 months, burdening the neighboring country with more refugees in one year than the previous 20 years combined. The majority of the refugee have settled in makeshift shelters.
Another 10 million people remain forcibly displaced within Sudan since the internal conflict began in April 2023. The conflict pits the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Al-Burhan, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti).