“These are the first WFP food items that we have been able to transport into the camp in many months, carrying emergency food aid for 12,500 people,” the UN food agency’s spokesperson, Leni Kinzli, told a UN press briefing in Geneva.

“While the amount of aid on this convoy is just a drop in the ocean compared to the need, these trucks are delivering hope to people in Zamzam who have been battling famine on their own, cut off from aid for many months,” Kinzli said.

She noted that more than 700 trucks carrying WFP food aid are currently en route to communities across Sudan.