On Sunday, a Qatari plane touched down at Port Sudan Airport in Sudan with 25 tonnes of relief, including four ambulances and supplies for shelter sponsored by the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD).

With this crucial relief delivery, Qatar has now deployed 17 aircraft, totaling 530 tonnes of aid delivered.

Along with Qatar’s ambassador to Sudan, Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Sada, the crucial aid was accepted by Sudan’s Federal Ministers of Health, Social Development, and Health, Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim and Ahmed Adam Bakheet.

This is a component of Qatar’s initiative to improve the lot of the Sudanese people who are still displaced by violence.

In May 2023, Qatar inaugurated the air bridge, which allowed it to evacuate residents of Qatar.

Qatar promised to donate $50 million to aid humanitarian efforts in Sudan on June 19, 2023.

Since mid-April of last year, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in combat. The UN estimates that this conflict has resulted in 8.2 million civilian displacement in addition to over 13,000 fatalities.

Despite international efforts to establish a long-term truce, the conflict has escalated.

Both the army and the RSF have been charged with war crimes throughout the current conflict, including the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and the arbitrary imprisonment of people.