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Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, a charity that provides humanitarian medical care on Tuesday said a scale-up of humanitarian assistance is desperately needed across Sudan in both harder-to-reach areas like Darfur and Khartoum, and also eastern Sudan.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the other hand said it welcomed the ceasefire call.
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 1,646 food baskets to the most needy and displaced families in Kassala State, Sudan, reported the Saudi Press Agency on Sunday. The aid benefits 9,456 people and is part of the food security support project in Sudan. The initiative comes within the humanitarian and relief projects provided by Saudi Arabia through its humanitarian arm, KSrelief, to numerous needy and affected countries and peoples around the world.
Given the ways in which Iranian influence has grown elsewhere in the region, there are fears that the Sudanese army, with its Islamist orientation, will morph into a militia group similar to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, ultimately exerting Iran’s will in exchange for funding and military support.
Sudan's Sovereign Council head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has reaffirmed on Monday that his army will continue fighting until it crushes the “rebellion,” in reference to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Since last April, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF started fighting a war that has ravaged the country. During a visit to Kassala State where he addressed troops of the 44th Brigade in New Halfa, al-Burhan said that the battle continues until RSF are defeated.