New York - Khartoum: Europe and the Arabs
The World Food Program strongly condemns the looting of its food and assets in El Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, which endangers vital food assistance to 4.4 million people.
According to what was stated in the United Nations news bulletin, of which we received a copy early in the morning, the program said that its warehouses were attacked in the El-Obeid area, which contains one of its largest logistical bases in Africa, which is an essential lifeline for millions of people throughout Sudan and South Sudan. .
During the daily press conference in New York, United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said such actions "are not just criminal, they are immoral."
He added, "You are stealing food from people who desperately need it. You are destroying the humanitarian assets needed by millions of your brothers back home. This is totally unacceptable."
Despite the challenges faced by humanitarian operations, Mr. Dujarric said that UN agencies and their Sudanese partners remain on the ground and operate wherever they can.
He stressed the responsibility of the parties to protect the humanitarian work that aims to help the Sudanese people.
"It is the responsibility of those who carry guns to ensure that instead of using these weapons against humanitarian workers and property, they divert these weapons to protect humanitarian workers and resources," he added.
The UN spokesman said that the organization still faces bureaucratic obstacles regarding the movement of its staff into and within the country. He called for speeding up the issuance of visa permits and suspending the imperative of internal movement permits to ensure that the organization has sufficient capacity to carry out its vital humanitarian operations.

political developments
In statements to reporters following a closed meeting of the Security Council yesterday evening, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reaffirmed his full confidence in his Special Representative to Sudan, Volker Peretz.
The Secretary-General said that it was "up to the Security Council to decide whether it supports the continuation of the mission for another period or to decide that the time has come to end it."
IDPs and refugees
For its part, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continues its presence in the country and works with its partners to provide the necessary assistance where the security situation allows, especially in the states of Kassala, Gedaref, White Nile and Blue Nile.
The agency called on the international community to provide urgent assistance to the refugees coming to Chad from Sudan after their number exceeded one hundred thousand people.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the majority of the new arrivals came from Darfur, and estimated that up to 200,000 people could be forced to flee to eastern Chad in the next three months.
UNHCR confirmed that it is working side by side with its partners and the Chadian government to provide support and coordinate the emergency response to meet the needs of the newly arrived refugees.
UNHCR requires $214.1 million to provide life-saving protection and assistance to forcibly displaced people in Chad, including $72.4 million for the emergency response to refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan.
The UN agency regretted that its operations in Chad were only funded by 16 percent of the amount required for those operations.