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❗️War on Iran drives up aid costs to Sudan, delays deliveries The cost of delivering some humanitarian aid to Sudan has more than doubled since the US-Israeli war on Iran disrupted shipping routes, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. According to the agency, increased insecurity along key Gulf maritime corridors along with congestion at ports, higher fuel prices, and rising insurance costs, has slowed aid deliveries. "People in dire need are receiving things that are ready later than what's needed," UNHCR spokesperson Carlotta Wolf told reporters in Geneva. Wolf said aid that previously moved from Dubai through the Strait of Hormuz is now being redirected, with supplies transported overland and shipped via Aqaba in Jordan for deliveries to Chad, and through Oman for shipments to Port Sudan. Transport costs for moving 2,018 metric tons of relief supplies from Dubai to Sudan and Chad through these routes have more than doubled, increasing to $1.87 million from $927,000, Wolf said.