Sudan: Swiss among mediators calling for continuous flow of aid

The seven parties, including Switzerland, who led ten days of talks on Sudan in the Geneva region, are calling for the new flow of aid to “continue and accelerate”. On Friday they said they had obtained guarantees for a second route from Port Sudan. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This week more than a dozen lorries were able to cross the Adré crossing from Chad into Darfur, where part of the population is facing famine. "Hundreds are needed," US envoy Tom Perriello, who chaired the negotiations, told the press on Friday. The Sudanese army, which was not present in Geneva but could be contacted by telephone by the negotiators, had authorised this opening for three months. + Sudan: everything you need to know about the Geneva negotiations In a joint statement issued on Friday at the end of the talks, the United States, along with Switzerland and Saudi Arabia, which co-organised the discussions, said they had also obtained guarantees for an aid route from ...