Aid agencies are looking to bring aid into Sudan via a new route from South Sudan because of difficulties in reaching many parts of the country, a senior UN official said.
Rick Brennan, Director of the Emergency Programme at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, said the working environment in Sudan was very difficult.
Brennan said the United Nations was also looking to launch cross-border operations from South Sudan to the southern parts of Sudan’s Kordofan states.
Aid agencies can no longer reach Wad Madani, a former aid hub after the RSF wrested control of it from the army last month. Wad Madani is located in the agricultural state of Gezira southeast of Khartoum.
The UN and other agencies are only allowed to operate outside the Red Sea coast city of Port Sudan, as well as deliver aid from Chad to the western Darfur region.