UN: Inventory About Operations Impediments
Agencies – Sudan Events
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has underlined in its daily Sudan situation report that the lack of security, looting, bureaucratic impediments, poor network and phone connectivity, lack of cash, and limited technical and humanitarian staff are affecting the delivery of aid to many areas in the country.
The daily report pointed out the UN complained that scarcity of fuel has also impeded the movement of the humanitarian relief officials as well as impacting he supply and power generation required for the cooling chain for storing, provision of drinking water and other process within the humanitarian action.
But the UN report stressed that despite all these challenges, partners in the humanitarian assistance fields continue to provide lifesaving assistance to vulnerable groups that could be reached.
The report pointed out that in general and during the period April 15th to November 15th 2023, some 163 partners have provided lifesaving assistance to some 4.9 million people all over the Sudan and that some 5.7 million have been able to receive humanitarian and agricultural assistance, as the platform of the humanitarian response indicated.
The report has pinpointed to the number of people in need of assistance who are not reached by either the UN or its partners in the humanitarian fields stand at some 200 thousand persons. It said health services were provided for over 200 thousand people and that recently some 100 thousands people have recieved humanitarian assistance, agricultural material.
