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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.

World Food Programme (WFP) calls for urgent, safe access to feed millions in Sudan as fighting rages across the country

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Sudan's nine-month-old war has so far largely spared the country's east.In recent months, the RSF's push into Al-Jazira state, southeast of the embattled capital Khartoum, has given it access to roads leading further east, towards the Ethiopian and Eritrean borders, and beyond to Port Sudan where officials of the government, loyal to the army, have relocated from Khartoum.

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.