Khartoum: Global financial support for humanitarian work in conflict-riven Sudan is expected to drop this year despite improved aid access and the easing of US sanctions, the top UN aid official in the country said. "Sudan is taking some very positive steps which are recognised, and... normally that would need to be recognised also by increased funding," UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Marta Ruedas, told AFP. "Yet the surrounding financial environment is one where I'm afraid that it's going to be rather a decrease in funding," she said in an interview. The expected decrease comes despite an improvement in access for aid deliveries to millions of impoverished people across Sudan, a factor in former US president Barack Obama's decision to ease US sanctions last month.
