Darfur displaced, NGOs agree to ‘comprehensive survey’

The leaders of Kalma camp for the displaced near to Nyala, capital of South Darfur, have met with several international organisations and agreed to collaborate in a comprehensive survey of the displaced. Spokesman for the Association of Displaced Persons and Refugees of Darfur, Hussein Abu Sharati, told Radio Dabanga that the administration of Kalma camp met on Thursday with representatives of Oxfam, Unicef, OCHA, and ICRC.They agreed to cooperate with a comprehensive survey of the number of people, old and new, who have been displaced since the month of January. Abu Sharati explained that the survey is designed to complement a visit planned for October by the Deputy Executive Director of Unicef. The survey is intended to ascertain the real humanitarian situation and the essential needs of the displaced persons in terms of medicine and food. A separate report to reach Radio Dabanga says that “thousands of newly displaced people of camp Kalma in South Darfur are facing extremely difficult humanitarian and health situations”. Sheikh Ali Abdulrahman told Radio Dabanga that “there are 8,750 newly displaced persons who arrived at Centre 5 of the camp a month ago, have not so far had their names registered nor received humanitarian aid”. The sheikh added that these people ”are facing extremely difficult humanitarian and health situations, as they live in the open without food, shelter, cover or medications under the heavy rains”. He demanded the humanitarian organisations expedite registration of the newly displaced persons and the provision of humanitarian aid. File photo by Olivier Chassot/Unamid