Displaced despair in South and North Darfur camps

The humanitarian and security situation in Kass camp in South Darfur, and Zamzam camp in North Darfur is extremely bad. A widow of the Kass camp for the displaced complained to Radio Dabanga that the camp residents, “in particular widows and women whose husbands disappeared”, are living in conditions she described as “worse than catastrophic”. “We are desperate. The militiamen continuously assault us when we leave the camp. It is impossible for us, women, to collect firewood or tend a garden.  We don’t know what to do anymore to provide our children with food.” Zamzam camp The conditions the newly displaced in Zamzam camp, El Fasher locality in North Darfur, are living in, are “extremely miserable”. “They are staying in the open, under the scorching sun, without barely anything to drink or eat”, an activist at the camp told Radio Dabanga.He urged relief organisations to act immediately and provide aid to the newly displaced, “even though their registration has not been completed”. The newly displaced sought refuge at Zamzam camp after widespread attacks by the paramilitary Rapid support Forces, commanded by the national security, on rural areas near North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher in March and April. File photo: Newly displaced at Zamzam camp in North Darfur (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related:Renewed attacks on villages west of El Fasher; UN delegation visits North Darfur (9 April 2014)North Darfur State convenes emergency meeting (1 April 2014) Number of displaced fleeing to North Darfur capital grows (28 March 2014) At least eight villages destroyed in area west of North Darfur’s El Fasher (21 March 2014)