New measures for humanitarian operations

Meanwhile, the Sudanese government decided on Tuesday to introduce new measures for relief and humanitarian operations in Sudan. The government will implement “several special measures to correct the overall course of relief and humanitarian operations in Sudan”, ‘Al-Ra’y al-Am’ newspaper reported. All international organisations and donor countries would be contacted by the government “with a view to discussing the violations and lack of commitment to the agreed upon conventions governing humanitarian operations which have had the negative effects of prolonging the war and undermining confidence in humanitarian operations in Sudan”, said the report, monitored by the BBC.

The meeting was chaired by first vice-president, Ali Uthman Muhamed Taha, and was attended by ministers of defence, internal affairs, social planning, the minister of state for external relations, and the presidential adviser for security affairs.