Remember our earlier blog in which we cited 11.25 L as being what a person would need each day to get enough to drink, wash and cook with? Well, now the people in Al Salam Camp near Nyala in South Darfur can each get 11.7 L thanks to fuel for their water pumps finally arriving...
Category: Darfur successful aid drinking water
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...
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...