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WFP convoy from South Sudan arrives in Sudan, UN calls for use of all routes to reach people in need
Summary
The World Food Programme delivered 1,000 metric tonnes of food via a four-barge convoy from South Sudan to Khosti, enough to feed about 80,000 people for one month. The UN said this establishes another route into Sudan and urged humanitarian use of all possible corridors.
Farhan, the UN spokesperson, said the first cross-border barge convoy from South Sudan to Sudan via the White Nile arrived on 22 January in Khosti. He said the four-barge convoy carried 1,000 metric tonnes of WFP food assistance — enough, WFP estimates, to feed roughly 80,000 people for one month.
Farhan described the convoy as "months in the planning" and said it establishes another vital route for getting assistance into Sudan. He noted that earlier in the week WFP reached Wad Madani (the capital of Al Jazirah state) with the first delivery of aid in over a year and emphasized that humanitarian actors must be able to use all routes across borders and front lines to get urgently needed assistance to all parts of Sudan.
Why it matters: new and secure supply corridors can expand access to populations cut off by conflict, and the convoy demonstrates an operational route that humanitarian agencies want to maintain and replicate.
Context: WFP and partners continue to plan and coordinate multimodal delivery routes to overcome access constraints; the briefing reiterated the need to keep all possible supply lines open.
