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Khartoum rejects "cross-border relief" to South Kordofan, Blue Nile

Xinhua, November 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Sudanese government on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of what it termed as "cross-border relief" outside the government supervision for South Kordofan and Blue Nile areas.

"The government is committed to the tripartite initiative of the United Nations, African Union and the Arab League to deliver humanitarian assistance to the needy in the two areas, but we reject cross-border relief outside the government supervision," Ahmed Mohamed Adam, Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, said at a press conference in Khartoum Tuesday.

He accused the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector of preventing delivery of humanitarian assistance to the affected population at the two areas, saying that the movement refuses to implement the tripartite initiative which was adopted by the UN Security Council in 2012.

In the meantime, Sudan's State Minister for Health Somia Akad, for her part, held the SPLM/northern sector responsible for preventing thousands of children in the two areas from getting vaccinated.

"There are nearly 164,000 children who have not received routine immunization and vaccines against some diseases including polio," Akad said at the press conference.

"We have worked out a plan for an immunization campaign targeting the children who we could not reach and we have responded to the demands of the SPLM/northern sector that the government authorities should not run the campaign," she said.

The two areas have been witnessing armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the rebels of the SPLM/northern sector since 2011.

On Monday, the newest round of peace talks between Khartoum and rebels of the (SPLM)/northern sector collapsed, just five days after they were resumed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Endit