According to reports, several convoys crossed with food and nutritional supplies for 250,000 people from Chad at the end of March with the aim of supporting the response to acute hunger in the northern, western and central parts of that region.

Leni Kinzli, WFP officer in Sudan, warned that despite this positive step, the Sudanese people need a constant flow of aid through humanitarian corridors from neighboring countries and across battle lines.

Otherwise, he reckoned, the country’s hunger catastrophe will only get worse.

Since February, that United Nations agency warned that the conflict in the African nation could trigger the world’s worst hunger crisis without desperately needed food aid.

This requires unrestricted access, faster authorizations and funding for a humanitarian response that meets the enormous needs of civilians affected by the devastating war, called for WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain.

According to the WFP, 37 trucks with 1,300 tons of supplies crossed last week into Western Darfur from Adre in Chad for distribution also in the western and central areas.

Another 580 tons entered the Sudanese region from the northern Tina border crossing on March 23, while six additional trucks arrived from Port Sudan a few days later.

In 2023, WFP reached one million people in Western and Central Darfur with food transported through the Adré crossing.

However, the Program assures that the fierce fighting, the lack of security and the delayed authorizations of the parties in conflict caused serious delays in the distribution of this assistance.

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