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4.6 million Sudanese people in urgent need of humanitarian aid: UN

Xinhua, July 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

The 2016 Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan was launched on Tuesday, requesting 952 million U.S. dollars to support 4.6 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here.

These include an estimated 2.2 million internally displaced people as well as 700,000 refugees as well as vulnerable populations due to the impact of El Nino, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

"Women, men, refugees and internally displaced people want us to exert our maximum efforts to provide support to them," said Naeema Al-Gasser, acting UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan.

She said the bulk of the funds would be used to meet the humanitarian needs of people in war-torn Darfur, a Sudanese region.

The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), led by Jibril Ibrahim, the SLM/Minni Minnawi faction and the SLM/Abdul-Wahid Nur faction have been waging war against the Sudanese government since 2003. Enditem