From June 3 to August 6, 2015, Radio Dabanga articles have reported that heavy rains have destroyed literally hundreds of homes and flooded the following places (numbers in parenthesis indicate the reported number of homes destroyed): Kalma (761), El Salaam, Otash, Dereig (40) camps in South Darfur. Dar El Salaam (20) and Forika (12) camps...
Category: Darfur without shelter
Flooding a danger as the rainy season begins: three camps report storms have collapsed shelters and latrines
Dabanga reports today that Garsila, Deleig and Bindisi camp residents have also seen their food stores rot because of the lack of shelter. Article may be found here: https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rains-damage-homes-spoil-food-in-central-darfur-camps The rainy season in Sudan runs from about May to October, with the heaviest rains running from about June to September. Storms wiping out shelters, latrines...
Walking and waiting for potable water steals your time and energy when you need it most
UNOCHA has reported that the daily amount of water needed by one person for basic needs (drinking, washing, cooking) is about 11.25 liters, give or take 3.75 liters, depending on the person’s physiology and the climate in which they live (1). Even though most of the inhabited part of Darfur is semidesert (with the drier...