Thirty-four villages in Kutum Locality, North Darfur State were attacked on December 2 and 3. Fourteen villages were burned, another twenty looted; five people were killed and about ten thousand were displaced, mostly to the mountains, were they remained as of December 20, according to UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Bulletin for Sudan (1). Aid groups were planning to...
Category: Darfur lack of health resources
Measles, dengue fever and food insecurity in Darfur; Funding for UNOCHA in Sudan at 57%
A badly shortened growing season, a widespread outbreak of a hemorrhagic fever, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people may not seem like news anymore, the way things are going in the world today. But you have to remember that in the case of Darfur, these things are happening in a cycle of...
Much of North Darfur to be reliant on food aid for remainder of the year, millions of kids without education, many feared to be dying of malnutrition
According to the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS-Net), due to inadequate rainfall (despite the rains of August), much of North Darfur State will be reliant on food aid in order to maintain minimally adequate food consumption while getting other essential things in unsustainable ways (this is called crisis level 2, yellow). And households in parts...