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 not enough aid
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...
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...