Khartoum, September 8(Darfur24)US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Wednesday during a visit to Chad that the United States will provide an additional $163 million in aid to the Sudanese people and neighboring countries hosting refugees, including Chad.
On a visit to the town of Adre in Chad on the border with Sudan, Thomas-Greenfield, a member of President Joe Biden’s government, announced new sanctions targeting Abdel Rahim Dagalo, the brother of Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, due to human rights violations.
The American envoy met with about seven Sudanese women in Adre, who told her about the circumstances during which they fled severe violence.
“They all came to Chad for fear of what might happen to them,” Thomas-Greenfield told Reuters. None of them expressed a feeling or even a desire to return home as long as the violence continued.”
She continued, saying, “I felt despair because I felt unable to do anything for them.” “I could not provide an answer on how the international community can help them.”
Thomas-Greenfield visited a temporary hospital run by the charity Doctors Without Borders, which is treating about 144 patients, most of whom suffer from malnutrition. While she was passing through one part of the hospital, there was a woman slowly feeding a malnourished child, and there was a sick child lying alone in a nearby bed.
The war broke out in Sudan on April 15, four years after former President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in a popular uprising. Tensions escalated between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, after they participated in a coup in 2021, turning into fighting due to a dispute over a transition plan to civilian rule.