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KSrelief Continues to Deliver Aid to Wounded, Needy Yemenis

KSrelief Continues to Deliver Aid to Wounded, Needy Yemenis
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KSrelief Continues to Deliver Aid to Wounded, Needy Yemenis

KSrelief Continues to Deliver Aid to Wounded, Needy Yemenis

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), continued to treat the wounded and injured Yemenis and provide them with various medical services where more than 24,000 wounded and injured Yemenis benefited from these services since the establishment of the KSrelief in May 2015.

The center also distributed, in cooperation with Benevolence Coalition for Humanitarian Relief, shelter materials to the displaced in Marib.

The aid included 27 tents, 126 blankets, 54 rugs and 27 shelters bags, benefiting 156 people.

Meanwhile, in cooperation with the Al-Khair Coalition for Humanitarian Relief, the Saudi center distributed 44 tons and 400 kilograms of food baskets, benefiting 1,800 displaced people in Saada.

The Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Center, in Taiz, also continued to provide various medical services to the Yemeni people who lost limbs, with support from KSrelief.

During August 2020, KSrelief provided 758 services to 387 beneficiaries.

This comes within the framework of the various projects being provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the KSrelief, to support Yemenis at all levels.

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UN Mission Says Both Sudan Sides Committed Abuses, Peacekeepers Needed 

Displaced Sudanese children who have returned from Ethiopia gather amid tents fortified against heavy rain by sandbags, in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat on September 4, 2024. (AFP)
Displaced Sudanese children who have returned from Ethiopia gather amid tents fortified against heavy rain by sandbags, in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat on September 4, 2024. (AFP)
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UN Mission Says Both Sudan Sides Committed Abuses, Peacekeepers Needed 

Displaced Sudanese children who have returned from Ethiopia gather amid tents fortified against heavy rain by sandbags, in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat on September 4, 2024. (AFP)
Displaced Sudanese children who have returned from Ethiopia gather amid tents fortified against heavy rain by sandbags, in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat on September 4, 2024. (AFP)

Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday.

Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have both attacked civilians, used torture and made arbitrary arrests, according to the 19-page report that said it was based on 182 interviews with survivors, their relatives and witnesses.

"The gravity of these findings underscores the urgent and immediate action to protect civilians," the chair of the UN factfinding mission, Mohamed Chande Othman, said. He called for an independent and impartial force to be deployed without delay.

Both sides have dismissed past accusations from the US and rights groups, and have accused each other of carrying out abuses. Neither immediately responded to a request for comment on Friday, or released a statement in response to the report.

The mission called for the expansion of an existing UN arms embargo which currently just applies to the western region of Darfur. The war that started in Khartoum in April last year has spread to 14 out of 18 of the country's states.

The reported abuses may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, the mission said.

The fact-finding team said it had tried to contact Sudanese authorities on multiple occasions but had got no answer.

The conflict began when competition between the army and the RSF, who had previously shared power after staging a coup, flared into open warfare.

Civilians in Sudan are facing worsening famine, mass displacement and disease after 17 months of war, aid agencies say.

US-led mediators said last month that they had secured guarantees from both parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the Sudanese army's absence from the discussions had hindered progress.

The report is the three-member mission's first since its creation in October 2023 by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A group of Western countries including the United States and Britain will call for its renewal at a meeting beginning next week, with diplomats expecting opposition from Sudan which considers the war an internal affair.