Rhino: Agencies – The Sudanese Relief Agency, affiliated to the Rapid Support Forces, announced today, Monday, the diversion of 25 food trucks that were scheduled to go to other areas, to the “Zamzam” camp for displaced people in North Darfur, which suffers from the outbreak of famine.

The Sudanese Relief Agency confirmed in a statement on Monday that the humanitarian situation has worsened, with some Sudanese forced to eat tree leaves and dirt to survive in areas such as Darfur and Kordofan, with the suffering in Gezira, Khartoum and Sennar intensifying due to the army’s insistence on refusing to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, after making starvation a weapon of war.

The statement added: “There are currently about 11 million displaced people, while about half of Sudan’s population is suffering from various levels of famine crisis, and about 750,000 people are on the verge of acute famine, while another 2.5 million people are expected to die, due to conditions related to the ongoing conflict in Sudan.

The statement stressed that the Sudanese Agency for Relief and Humanitarian Operations is doing its best to communicate with the RSF and UN organizations, especially the World Food Program, to find objective solutions to protect and facilitate the movement of relief supplies to the affected communities.

The agency succeeded in diverting 25 trucks that were scheduled to travel to other areas under the control of the RSF in Darfur to the Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), he said.

“The agency will continue to work with the UN and the Rapid Support Forces to ensure adequate protection until these trucks reach their final destination,” he said.

“Intransigence and the use of humanitarian aid and starvation as a weapon to punish innocent citizens who are outside the areas under the control of the armed forces is a humanitarian crime by all standards,” he said.

The statement stressed the endeavor to ensure the activation of other crossings other than those imposed by the army government in Port Sudan, explaining that the “Adri” crossing on the border with Chad is the ideal route for the arrival of humanitarian aid flows, especially as the situation worsens and as rainfall rates increase and roads are cut off.

The Agency announced its readiness to open all international crossings that can be an outlet to save lives on the brink of death, after working with everyone to ensure the necessary protection for the arrival of humanitarian aid and the safety of humanitarian workers.