Saudi Arabia directs $100 million in aid to Sudanese people
Sudanese refugee women struggle to load a barrel on a donkey as they prepare to go to the water point, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun. Reuters
Saudi Arabia will allocate $100 million in humanitarian aid to Sudan, Saudi state-run media said on Sunday.
Sudan has been mired in internal strife since a conflict erupted between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15.
Saudi media reported that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman directed the King Salman Relief Center to provide various humanitarian aid worth $100 million to the Sudanese people.
The general supervisor of the center, Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah, confirmed that the assistance provided comes out of the keenness of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and his crown prince to stand by the Sudanese people and mitigate the effects of the difficult crisis in the country, according to Saudi SPA agency.
He explained that the center will provide relief and humanitarian aid to the displaced in Sudan, and will provide medical aid as well.
On the other hand, the UN's top aid official arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for ceasefire talks between Sudan's warring generals, as concern grows for the humanitarian situation at the start of a fourth week of gun battles and air strikes in the Sudanese capital.
Multiple truce deals have been declared without effect since fighting erupted between army and paramilitary forces on April 15 in the poverty-stricken country with a history of political instability.
Fierce combat since then has killed hundreds of people, most of them civilians, wounded thousands and sparked multiple warnings of a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis.
More than 100,000 people have already fled the country.
