UN carries out cross-border aid deliveries to Sudan's Darfur

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4: UN humanitarians have facilitated cross-border deliveries of assistance from Chad into Sudan's Darfur region despite the ongoing conflict, said a UN spokesman on Thursday.

"The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs tells us that today it facilitated cross-border deliveries of food items by the World Food Programme from Chad into West Darfur," said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.