{"id":3796,"date":"2023-11-08T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:48:52","slug":"humanitarian-coordinator-in-sudan-states-commitments-adopted-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/humanitarian-coordinator-in-sudan-states-commitments-adopted-in-jeddah\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan States Commitments Adopted in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Statement of Commitments adopted in Jeddah by the parties to the conflict in Sudan marks a moment of truth for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Clementine Nkweta-Salami said that promises made by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) \u2013 to protect civilians and provide unimpeded humanitarian access \u2013 are promises that must be kept.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development \u2013 representing IGAD and the African Union \u2013 for their role in facilitating these critical negotiations&#8221; ,Nkweta said<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I welcome the agreement to establish a Humanitarian Forum for Sudan led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs representing the humanitarian community and with the participation of the parties to the conflict. The forum will further facilitate the implementation of the commitments made in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>The Coordinator pointed out that It comes -and not a moment too soon. After almost seven months of war, half of Sudan\u2019s population \u2013 nearly 25 million people \u2013 need humanitarian assistance.Displacement, disease and sexual violence are rampant.<\/p>\n<p>The statement stressed that tangible commitments agreed by the SAF and RSF today must now be followed by immediate and tangible actions. It is critical that the obstacles \u2013 bureaucratic and otherwise \u2013 that keep us from delivering life-saving relief at speed and at scale are cleared away once and for all .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must have reliable guarantees from all parties to ensure that relief items, humanitarian workers and assets can move safely across conflict lines. We simply cannot reach Khartoum, Darfur, the Kordofans and other war-torn areas of the country without these assurances &#8220;.she added.<\/p>\n<p>The parties to the conflict have a shared obligation to honour the commitments made in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of the millions of civilians in Sudan who want no part of this war and in the spirit of today\u2019s agreement, they must work toward a permanent cessation of hostilities. The people of Sudan deserve nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Statement of Commitments adopted in Jeddah by the parties to the conflict in Sudan marks a moment of truth for the country. Ms. Clementine Nkweta-Salami said that promises made by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) \u2013 to protect civilians and provide unimpeded humanitarian access \u2013 are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}