Sudanese Embassy in Tokyo Begins Mobilizing Humanitarian and Development Support for Sudan

Tokyo – Sudanhorizon

The Sudanese Embassy in Japan has begun mobilizing humanitarian and development support for Sudan in coordination with regional offices of international organizations in Tokyo, led by the World Food Programme.

Sudan’s Ambassador to Japan, Al-Rayeh Haidoub, held a meeting yesterday (Wednesday) with Mr. Yasuhiro Tsumura, Country Director of the World Food Programme, at his office in Yokohama. The meeting aimed to explore ways of cooperation and joint coordination with the embassy to expand the organization’s development and humanitarian programs in Sudan. This comes in light of Japan’s recent approach of channeling its humanitarian and development assistance through United Nations organizations due to security conditions.

Ambassador Haidoub expressed the Sudanese government’s appreciation for the efforts of the World Food Programme in providing humanitarian and development assistance, helping to alleviate poverty and hunger in several regions, and implementing projects in infrastructure, agriculture, and services.

He affirmed the embassy’s readiness in Tokyo to cooperate and expand this partnership, and to address challenges facing the program’s work in coordination with relevant Sudanese government bodies. He also highlighted ongoing coordination with the Japanese government, as a donor country, to secure and increase support for projects in Sudan through Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

For his part, Mr. Yasuhiro Tsumura confirmed the World Food Programme’s readiness to continue its efforts to support those affected by the war in Sudan and to intensify its work in this regard, while mobilizing and increasing Japanese government support for development and humanitarian projects in Sudan.

He also agreed to Ambassador Haidoub’s proposal to jointly organize an event and seminar to mobilize Japanese support for humanitarian and development projects in Sudan. Both sides agreed to develop a plan for holding the seminar in the last quarter of this year and to invite the Japan International Cooperation Agency as a key partner in organizing the event. They also agreed to invite a number of Japanese parliamentarians and academics to participate, along with the Director of the World Food Programme office in Khartoum and representatives from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the Humanitarian Aid Commission.

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