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DTPC launches Dube WHO delivers 50T

TradeZone 2, attracts medical supplies to Sudan’s

heavy early investments Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains

ue to the limited access and operational capacity
Din Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Office in Sudan collaborated with WHO South
Sudan office to facilitate the delivery of 50 tonnes of
medical supplies and humanitarian commodities from
South Sudan and provide the necessary support.
The ongoing crisis in Sudan has significantly
impeded the ability of the WHO office in Sudan to
access and deliver essential emergency medical supplies
to the regions of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains.
In response to these critical needs, the World Health
Organization offices in South Sudan and Sudan
collaborated to provide emergency medical supplies to
those affected.
By leveraging the WHO South Sudan office's logistical
prowess, expertise, and available resources, WHO South
Sudan prepositioned the requisite quantities of emergency
health kits from existing stockpiles in areas adjacent to the
ube TradePort Corporation the next five years, as stated in an Sudan-South Sudan border, ensuring timely and effective
D(DTPC) has launched the official release. Dube TradeZone assistance to those in dire need.
second phase of its industrial 2 is spread across 45 hectares of
precinct and special economic industrial land for development
zone (SEZ) adjacent to South and comprises 23 fully serviced
Africa's King Shaka International sites ranging in size from 3,000m²
Airport. The ceremony marked the to 57,000m². The precinct will
inauguration of Dube TradeZone have three Dube TradePort-owned
2, showcasing two factories that are warehouses, including one that
currently under construction and can accommodate medium-sized
worth over R180 million. businesses, thus facilitating the
Dube TradeZone 2 is expected expansion of small businesses
to create around 600 jobs within located in the mini-factories.

UN team visits Jomo Kenyatta Airport for humanitarian aid hub

team from the United Nations three are in Dubai, Copenhagen
A made a site visit to the Jomo and Brindisi, Italy. Locating the
Kenyatta International Airport hub in Kenya will provide for
to view the proposed site for the speedy delivery of life saving
creation of a UN humanitarian aid to conflict regions and areas
logistics hub with the support of of humanitarian crises on the
Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). continent and other regions in
The discussions were chaired the global south." The vision is
by Caleb Kositany, chairman, a humanitarian logistics hub
KAA and focused on enhancing and corridor spanning from
humanitarian operations in the Mombasa to Naivasha through
region, says a LinkedIn post Nairobi, and the main objective
from KAA. will be to support regional
"The hub will be the first on humanitarian activities, the
the African continent. The other update added.

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