From June 3 to August 6, 2015, Radio Dabanga articles have reported that heavy rains have destroyed literally hundreds of homes and flooded the following places (numbers in parenthesis indicate the reported number of homes destroyed): Kalma (761), El Salaam, Otash, Dereig (40) camps in South Darfur. Dar El Salaam (20) and Forika (12) camps...
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Flooding a danger as the rainy season begins: three camps report storms have collapsed shelters and latrines
Dabanga reports today that Garsila, Deleig and Bindisi camp residents have also seen their food stores rot because of the lack of shelter. Article may be found here: https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rains-damage-homes-spoil-food-in-central-darfur-camps The rainy season in Sudan runs from about May to October, with the heaviest rains running from about June to September. Storms wiping out shelters, latrines...
USAID donates food worth $135 Million to the World Food Program in Sudan
Sorghum, lentils and cooking oil from USAID is intended to help the WFP serve 1.8 million people in Darfur during the lean season. It will help over a half million Darfuri school children and about 262,000 more schoolkids in eastern and central Sudan. Dabanga reports that the United States has donated $626 million to the...