On July 16, torrential rains destroyed hundreds of families’ homes in Kalma, one of the largest interntally displaced person camps in the five Darfur states. UNOCHA and the International Committee of the Red Cross have taken an inventory with the 511 families who lost their homes in Center 1B, as well as with the 250...
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Fuel for water networks finally arrives at South Darfur camps
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...
Rufaida Health Organization, the Patient Helping Fund and the National Initiative for Development Organization will stop work in Nyala area camps after this month
Together these three organizations provided health services to about 73,860 camp residents, in addition to many persons in South Darfur’s capital, Nyala, plus another 9,300 returnees. The organizations do not have enough funding to continue their work in the Nyala area beyond April. All three organizations are Sudanese aid groups. The number of internally displaced...