Among the major news stories in Sudan now are the widespread number cases of persons suffering watery diarrhea (1). The government denies cholera is to blame for them, but some, if not all, doctors operating outside the governent disagree (1, 2). Blue Nile and Sennar States are among the worst hit (they also saw some...
Category: Darfur UN budget shortfall
Seven months into the year, UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response Plan is only 22.5% funded
That is, as of July, only 214 million of the requested 952 million US dollars has been received (1). That money is intended to help 4.6 million Sudanese this year (2). It’s been confirmed that just under 81,000 people in 2016 have been driven from their homes in Darfur this year, with another 170,000 reported...
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...