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Aid for Palestine and Sudan to arrive Thursday: BNPB
The BNPB estimates that Indonesian humanitarian aid for civilians impacted by the conflicts in Palestine and Sudan will arrive by Thursday.
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People displaced by the ongoing conflict in Sudan break their fast together on March 29, 2024, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a mass 'Iftar' meal provided by a charity organization, at the Huri camp for the displaced, south of Gedaref in eastern Sudan. Indonesia estimated on Monday that its humanitarian aid for Sudan would arrive by Thursday. (AFP/Ebrahim Hamid)
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he National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) estimated that the Indonesian government's humanitarian aid for civilians affected by the conflicts in Palestine and Sudan would arrive in Cairo and the Port of Sudan, respectively, by Thursday.
"The delegations will arrive in Cairo and the Port of Sudan on Thursday to deliver humanitarian aid and hold several meetings with the relevant authorities in Egypt and Sudan," BNPB chief Lt. Gen. Suharyanto said, as quoted by the Antara news agency.
Suharyanto said that Indonesia would on Monday evening or Tuesday morning dispatch a team led by Brig. Gen. (ret) Ary Laksmana Widjaja to Egypt and another, led by Brig. Gen. Lukmansyah, to Sudan.
Their task is to coordinate with the Sudanese and Egyptian authorities, with support from the Indonesian embassies in Khartoum and Cairo, to prepare humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Sudanese, and Palestinians via the Egyptian government.
On Wednesday, Indonesia will also dispatch two humanitarian aid delegations to Sudan and Egypt.
The delegation bound for Cairo will be led by Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy while the delegation heading to Sudan will be led by Suharyanto.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry had received diplomatic requests from Egypt and Sudan for humanitarian aid because of conflicts and disease outbreaks affecting their populations.
