The government of Sudan under the sovereign council has announced its decision to extend the reopening of the Adre border from November 15 for another three months. The government made the announcement on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
Sudan’s sovereign council has said it would extend the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad, seen as essential by aid agencies for the delivery of food and other supplies to areas at risk of famine in the Darfur and Kordofan regions. The decision was revealed on Wednesday.
Last year, experts showed amid a hunger crisis, numerous areas at risk of famine, with one camp in the Darfur region already in its throes, the consequence of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and discussed ways to ease the humanitarian crisis.
Adre, which was closed by an order from the army-controlled government in February, was re-opened for three months in August until November 15.
Members of the government have protested against the opening, saying it allows for the RSF to deliver weapons.
As it stands, the United Nations welcomed the decision to keep Adre open for another three months with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on the sidelines of the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan earlier on Wednesday « on the importance of facilitating humanitarian distribution in Sudan and in particular through the Adre crossing, » said a U.N. spokesperson.
The re-opening of Adre in August coincided with the rainy season and the destruction of several roads and bridges, meaning that aid trickled in at the start.
As of now, more than 300 aid trucks with supplies for more than 1.3 million people have since crossed into Sudan through Adre, according to UN humanitarian coordination official Ramesh Rajasingham in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.
