Displaced in El Salam camp, South Darfur, still wait for aid

The 6,387 newly displaced people in El Salam camp in Bielel locality, South Darfur, who arrived at the camp for more than five months ago, have not been provided relief until now. Camp sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that though the newly displaced have been registered, they have not received any aid. “They have nothing to eat, and are still living in the open and sleeping on the ground, since they arrived at the camp early March. The rains have worsened their suffering.” The newly displaced fled their villages in the area southeast of South Darfur’s capital of Nyala when paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched widespread attacks on more than 100 villages in the area on 27 and 28 February.   Tabaldiya said that the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commissioner of South Darfur State, Jamal Yousif, visited the camp on Saturday. “After the leaders of the newly displaced explained their problems to him, he promised to solve their problems within 48 hours. Nothing happened so far.” The camp sheikh appealed to relief organisations to provide tents or tarpaulins, and food to the newly displaced “as soon as possible”. File photo: Newly displaced bivouacking in a classroom at El Salam camp, 9 March 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)Related:El Salam new arrivals ‘double Nyala population’: South Darfur (20 May 2014) Newly displaced continue to arrive at El Salam camp in South Darfur (23 April 2014)Thousands displaced in attack on more than 35 villages in South Darfur (28 February 2014)