RIYADH: Convoys carrying relief supplies sent by Saudi aid agency KSrelief have arrived at Nile River State and Northern State in Sudan, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday. The arrival of the convoys at their destinations marks the start of the second phase of a project to support food security in the North African country, officials said. Maj. Gen. Abdul Mahmoud Hammad Hussein, the acting governor of Nile River State, thanked Saudi Arabia for the aid projects it provides through KSrelief for the Sudanese people, who are facing a humanitarian crisis. The relief center also launched a voluntary medical project for urological surgeries for adults in Port Sudan. The project, scheduled from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, involves the participation of five volunteers of various medical specializations. The center’s volunteer medical team performed 11 surgeries, all of which were completely successful. In Yemen, a KSrelief team checked on the progress of the second phase of the project to rehabilitate houses affected by floods in the Al-Masila district of Yemen’s Al Mahrah governorate. In this phase, which will benefit 1,100 people, 50 residential units are being reconstructed, and the school and health unit in Aryut village are being rehabilitated and furnished. The project contributes to ending permanent and temporary displacement of families affected by floods in the governorate in recent years. The project is part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis.