Aid trucks trickle into Darfur as army pauses delivery ban
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00:00In these UN images, trucks from the World Food Programme cross from Chad into Sudan
00:06via the Adra border crossing, carrying desperately needed aid.
00:10Staple foods bound for the 13,000 people at risk of famine in West Darfur, a small fraction
00:16of the more than 6 million facing severe food insecurity across the Darfur region as Sudan's
00:22civil war grinds on.
00:25We will need a constant supply of humanitarian goods.
00:28It is critical to sustain that flow of food and nutrition assistance into and across Sudan,
00:34where more than a dozen areas are either at risk or in risk of famine.
00:40More than half the country's population, some 25 million people, are suffering acute hunger
00:45amid the now 15-month-old war between the regular army, led by General Abdel Fattah
00:49al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces Militia, or RSF, led by Mohammed Hamdan Tagalog.
00:56The Adra crossing is one of three routes that humanitarian groups want opened up to
01:01allow more aid into Darfur.
01:03Army forces had blocked it for months, accusing the United Arab Emirates of using it to send
01:08weapons to supply RSF fighters.
01:11U.S.-brokered negotiations aimed at a ceasefire are ongoing in Geneva, without a delegation
01:17from the army, which has refused to attend in person, though they are consulting remotely.
01:22It would be easier to work on the national cessation of hostilities if the army sent
01:26a delegation.
01:27The key, though, is the results.
01:29Sudan is now also dealing with a cholera epidemic as sanitation systems break down, an outbreak
01:35that is exacerbating the world's worst hunger crisis in a country once regarded as a breadbasket
01:42of Africa.