Today's top news: Sudan, Syria

A health care worker vaccinating an infant being held by a woman in a health care centre

A health care worker vaccinating an infant at a primary health care centre in Sinkat town, eastern Sudan. The town is now hosting displaced people by the conflict. July 2023. Photo: OCHA/Ala Kheir

#Sudan

Between 22 and 27 July more than 40 trucks carrying some 1,600 tons of food reached three states – Kassala, Gedaref and White Nile.

We also coordinated the movement of five additional trucks to West Kordofan, where they delivered roughly 300 tons of relief supplies.

Since 22 May, more than 780 trucks carrying about 35,000 tons of humanitarian assistance have reached locations across Sudan.

And looking at the response in the Darfur region of Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) has provided food and nutrition assistance to more than 450,000 people and counting in Central, East, North and South Darfur states since the conflict began. Today, together with the Sudanese Red Crescent, WFP supplies are reaching people internally displaced by conflict in the Al Firdous locality in East Darfur.

#Syria

Earlier today, 10 trucks carrying humanitarian assistance from the International Organization for Migration crossed into the north-west from Türkiye through the Bab al-Salam crossing. The trucks were carrying shelter items.

Additional truck movements and UN staff missions are planned through the Bab al-Salam and al-Ra’ee crossings in the coming days as we work with our humanitarian partners to continue providing humanitarian supplies and services to people in the north-west.