Speaking to Reuters from Port Sudan, WFP country director Eddie Rowe said looting was rampant in the country and some reports of theft of WFP supplies were still being investigated.
He added: “We estimated that around 17,000 tons were looted, some from our warehouses and some from trucks… This equates to between 13 and 14 million dollars just for the cost of the food. Almost daily we receive reports of other looting.”
Rowe’s comments come a day after Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, called on both sides to the conflict in Sudan to pledge safe passage for aid and personnel. humanitarians.
The United Nations said the conflict in Sudan has forced some 100,000 people to flee to neighboring countries and hampered the delivery of aid in a country where a third of the population already depends on humanitarian aid.
Rowe said the World Food Program urgently needs to buy more supplies for Sudan.
“We know that if we don’t buy raw materials now, we will be out of stock in the next two or three months,” he added.
He added, “We have already started communicating with our donors to see how quickly we can buy and also deliver to places we can reach and where it is relatively safe to provide assistance.”
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