The UAE Ministry of Overseas Affairs (MoFA) has introduced the signing of an settlement with the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) to offer USD 7 million in help of important humanitarian efforts in Sudan and South Sudan.
The settlement allocates USD 6 million for UNICEF’s operations in Sudan and USD 1 million for its actions in South Sudan, additional solidifying the UAE’s dedication to assuaging the extreme humanitarian crises in these international locations.
The continued battle in Sudan has escalated right into a dire disaster that’s impacting youngsters, with an estimated 13.6 million youngsters urgently needing help.
The battle has compelled over six million individuals, greater than half of whom are youngsters, to flee their properties, making Sudan the epicenter of the world’s largest little one displacement disaster.
This contribution from the UAE will straight help UNICEF’s efforts to make sure that youngsters and ladies in Sudan and South Sudan have entry to main well being care, ample high quality water, and schooling by way of each formal and non-formal channels, together with early studying packages.
Her Excellency Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for Worldwide Cooperation, stated “The UAE is deeply dedicated to supporting probably the most weak populations affected by battle, notably youngsters who’re bearing the brunt of the disaster in Sudan and South Sudan.
Via this settlement with UNICEF, we’re reinforcing our dedication to offering life-saving help and making certain that youngsters have entry to the important providers they desperately want.
The UAE will proceed to face by the brotherly Sudanese individuals of their time of want, working with worldwide companions to deal with the pressing humanitarian challenges. This has most lately been illustrated by the UAE’s participation within the Sudan talks in Geneva as an observer, which purpose to make sure the supply of help to these in want, particularly to probably the most weak.
On this regard, the UAE welcomes the motion of humanitarian actors and help although the Adre Crossing.”
Over the previous decade, the UAE has supplied greater than USD 3.5 billion in help to the Sudanese individuals, underscoring its dedication to serving to these in want throughout occasions of disaster. Because the outbreak of the battle in 2023, the UAE has supplied USD 230 million in humanitarian help and dispatched 159 aid flights, delivering greater than 10,000 tonnes of meals, medical, and aid provides.
Moreover, the UAE has constructed two area hospitals in Chad, which have supplied medical therapy to greater than 45,000 individuals.
Moreover, the UAE continues to name for a right away ceasefire within the ongoing battle and an pressing halt to violence as a essential demand.
The nation stresses that there isn’t any army resolution, and highlights the significance of the opponents working in direction of discovering a peaceable resolution to the battle by way of dialogue. To that finish, the UAE will keep its engagement with all related stakeholders and help any course of that goals to set Sudan on a political path to achieve an enduring settlement and obtain a nationwide consensus for forming a authorities the place civilians take part and lead.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Arab Emirates Ministry of Overseas Affairs&Worldwide Cooperation.
