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Today's top news: Sudan, Syria

Food being distributed to displaced people in a farm located in Aj Jazirah State, which hosts about 1,800 new arrivals from Khartoum. 8 June 2023. Photo: OCHA/Ala Kheir
 

Sudan

Tomorrow marks three months since the start of the conflict in that country, which has killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more.  Health care continues to be limited by the fighting, as well as shortages of supplies, damage or occupation of facilities and assaults on medical staff.

Over the past three months, the World Health Organization has verified some 50 attacks on health care. The lack of access to health care in many parts of the country is also compounding the growing risk of disease outbreaks. These dangers are particularly acute with the onset of the rainy season.

Despite the ongoing insecurity and bureaucratic impediments, we and our partners continue to deliver critical humanitarian assistance, including health supplies and seeds for planting. This week, we facilitated the movement of 26 trucks to various locations in Sudan. Ten of those trucks made deliveries to North and South Kordofan, with the rest reaching parts of eastern Sudan. 

Syria

The United Nations takes note of the letter from the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic granting the UN permission to use the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to deliver assistance from across the border with Türkiye to north-west Syria for six months.

The United Nations was not consulted or informed about the letter in advance.

We continue to study it and are available to engage on the modalities.

The United Nations is committed to delivering life-saving assistance to the millions of people in need in north-west Syria, guided by humanitarian principles and using all available means and delivery modalities.