National elections in Sudan will be held April 13 through 15, despite boycotting by major political opposition parties. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has been preparing for casualties of violent dispersals of protests, especially in Blue Nile, South and West Kordofan, White Nile, Khartoum and all five Darfur states. Each...
Tag: Darfur civlian resilience
Sheiria Locality, East Darfur displaced unlikely to return due to lack of resources; UN OCHA Sudan funding now at 5%
Dabanga reports on March 31 that a commissioner in Ed Daien, East Darfur stated that people displaced from Sheiria Locality (a locality in Darfur is like a county in the US) were unlikely to come back to their lands and homes because of the insecurity, and the lack of access to potable water, education and...
What if you had no electricity, gas or money for firewood?
The answer is the same anywhere in the world for someone in this position: you would have to go out and find firewood. If you live in a war zone, you would be in grave danger. In Darfur, civilians looking for firewood are often very brutally attacked. Reading over the articles of the Darfuri-run news...