UNSC Briefed on South Sudan Sanctions & Relief Efforts

On 7 November 2024, and in pursuance of paragraph 5 of resolution 2664 (2022), a representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on behalf of the Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan on the delivery of life-saving assistance and other activities that support essential human needs in South Sudan.

OCHA also informed it had not received any report of provision, processing or payment of funds, other financial assets or economic resources to, or known to have benefitted, designated individuals or entities, or of cases of aid diversion by, or known to have benefitted, the same, as part of the delivery of humanitarian assistance and other activities that support basic human needs in accordance with resolution 2664 (2022). OCHA did not rule out the possibility that such designated individuals and entities indirectly benefitted from existing incidents of aid diversion. OCHA further informed on risk management and due diligence process in place.

Members of the Committee thanked the representative for the briefing delivered on behalf of the Emergency Relief Coordinator and expressed support for the mandate.

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