Aliko Dangote Foundation Board of Trustees has indicated its interest to be involved in the evacuation and resettling of thousands of Nigerians stranded in the war torn Sudan.
MD/CEO of Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), Zouera Youssoufou, has been in contact with the management of Air Peace and the Federal Government to indicate the Foundation’s readiness to support the stranded Nigerians.
According to her “The Foundation will collaborate with the Federal Government and Air Peace in ensuring seamless transportation of the stranded Nigerians and more importantly, provide logistics and succour to the evacuees, to make them settle more comfortably when they return to Nigeria.
She said that ADF’s understands the challenges of the Federal Government and Air Peace involvement on this mission and has contacted relevant Federal Government Agencies, involved in Humanitarian Disaster Relief Intervention, “…indicating our interest in collaborating with them to ensure that all Nigerians stranded in Sudan are brought back home safely.”
Meanwhile, a Joint press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development revealed that the first batch of 13 buses conveying six hundred and thirty-seven (637) evacuees had arrived at the identified safe borders at Aswan, Egypt.
It would be recall that Aliko Dangote Foundation supported the Nigerian Government with logistics support for the Nigerian volunteer health workers who supported the Ebola containment efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone upon their return to the Country in 2015.
Also, during the recent COVID-19 Pandemic, ADF supported the return of Nigerians from India and Dubai during the outbreak of the pandemic with specially chartered flights and Covid testing and quarantining when they arrived back in Nigeria.
Since 2011, ADF has supported several thousand IDPs in Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, and Abuja with a total spending of over 25 billion naira in the provision of food, shelter, and health services.
