Kuwait Red Crescent Society’s second relief plane arrives in Sudanese capital
40 tons of humanitarian aid sent
KHARTOUM, Sept 13, (KUNA): A second planeload of relief supplies dispatched by Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) arrived on Sunday in the Sudanese capital to relieve victims of wide-scale flash floods that made thousands of people homeless and inflicted heavy damage.
Abbas Fadlallah, the humanitarian affairs commissioner in Sudan, expressed in a statement upon the plane arrival deep gratitude to the State of Kuwait for the generous and ongoing support for the nation particularly during dire times.
The KRCS General director, Abdulrahman Al-Aoun, who was among eminent personalities upon the plane touchdown, indicated that camps would be built to shelter people whose houses were destroyed or washed away with the raging waters that also swamped large swathes of land in the nation.
The aircraft that took off from Kuwait earlier today carried 40 tons of humanitarian aid meant for the victims affected by the flash floods.
In a statement to KUNA in Kuwait, KRCS’s emergency management director Yousef Al-Miraj, said the plane contained foodstuffs, medicines, tents and water pumps. He expressed his wish that this aid would alleviate suffering of the Sudanese people.
A KRCS team will coordinate with Kuwait’s embassy in Sudan and the Sudanese Red Crescent to rapidly distribute the relief cargo.
Al-Miraj added that the association will inspect affected places and determine requirements of those affected by the natural disaster. “This is an obligation towards our brothers in Sudan,” he said.
Sudanese authorities, since September 5, have enforced a three-month state of emergency throughout the country amid mounting natural disasters, namely fall of heavy rain and overflow of the Nile.
More than 557,000 people have been adversely affected with the catastrophes in 17 states of Sudan. The torrential rainfalls and the raging waters have caused deaths of more than 100 people and injured at least 50 others.
Thousands of houses have been demolished or swept away and many cattle have perished.