Marta Ruedas, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement today that there are 63,223 displaced persons in the area of Sortony, another 63,223 people in the Tawila area and 2,018 more in Kabkabiya, all displaced by the recent bombing, militia attacks and fighting in the Jebel Marra area to the south...
Category: Darfur IDP camp
Violence in Mouli village displaces about a thousand to El Geneina, West Darfur; war in Jebel Marra displaces hundreds
After the village of Mouli was attacked and looted on January 9 by militiamen (with five villagers and three militiamen killed) (1), approximately one thousand villagers went to the state capital a few miles to the north, El Geneina (2). On January 10 they were joined by residents of El Geneina in front of the...
UNOCHA weekly bulletin: Majority of Sudan’s most food insecure people are in the Jebel Mara area of Darfur
That is to say, the majority of Sudanese who are in situations in which they either do without food and suffer abnormally high malnutrition rates or can meet minimum food needs only by an increasing number of sacrifices that will put them at risk of going without food later. This is the Crisis level food insecurity (level...