New York - Khartoum: Europe and the Arabs
Over the past four weeks, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying 17,000 tons of relief items to different parts of Sudan. According to the United Nations news bulletin, a copy of which we received on Thursday morning

Fifty of these trucks moved during the first two days of the latest ceasefire. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the United Nations, confirmed that the UN agencies will continue to provide aid whether or not there is a ceasefire.

But he renewed the United Nations' call to end the fighting in order to reach all those in need of assistance in Sudan, wherever they are.

At the same time, he expressed concern about the impact of attacks on health care on women and girls. The United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization have reported that more than two-thirds of hospitals are closed in areas affected by the fighting, and many maternity hospitals have also stopped working.

The spokesman said that expectations indicate that out of the two million and five hundred thousand women and girls of childbearing age in Sudan, there are 263 thousand pregnant women, a third of whom will give birth during the next three months and all of them need reproductive health services.

As the fighting continues in Sudan, the number of internally displaced persons has increased to nearly two million, according to the International Organization for Migration. The highest percentage of displaced people is found in the states of West Darfur, River Nile, White Nile and Northern states.