Hunger in South Darfur camps
Residents of camps across South Darfur, complain of dire humanitarian and health conditions since the UN World Food Programme (WFP) stopped distributing food rations to them. In four other South Darfur camps, the WFP stopped the distribution of food rations four months ago. WFP staff told residents that the camps are no longer regarded as ‘camps for the displaced’, but as ‘rural camps’. A sheikh from Teiga told Radio Dabanga that the more than 7,000 displaced in the camp suffer from severe hunger and worsening health conditions. The situation has deteriorated since the WFP stopped the food rations in September 2010. He stressed that the failed agricultural season and the deteriorating security situation have increased their suffering. The camp residents criticised the so-called voluntary return programme. According to the sheikh, they will only return to their areas when the area has become “safe and secure, the displaced have been compensated, and the new settlers expelled. Mershing The displaced in Mershing appealed to humanitarian organisations, especially the WFP, to assist them with food, health care, education, and protection. They also called for the expulsion of new settlers who have taken their lands. Kubum A sheikh from Kubum camp for the displaced told Radio Dabanga that Um Labasa and Kubum camps in Kubum locality, as well as Haboba and Duggo Dosa camps of Shattai locality, are suffering from a food shortage since the WFP stopped food rations four months ago. He added that the camp residents sent delegates to the organisation’s office in Nyala. There, WFP staff told them of the reclassification to ‘rural camps’ that need annual support with ‘seeds for planting’. File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid Related:North Darfur’s Abu Shouk and El Salam camps to be ‘restructured’ (30 January 2014)Price hikes in Sudan, fuel crisis hinders farming; MPs warn of famine (23 January 2014) WFP stops food rations for Gaga refugee camp in Chad: Sheikh (22 January 2014)’Sirba camps for the displaced are now quasi-towns’: West Darfur HAC officials (8 January 2014)
Residents of camps across South Darfur, complain of dire humanitarian and health conditions since the UN World Food Programme (WFP) stopped distributing food rations to them.
In four other South Darfur camps, the WFP stopped the distribution of food rations four months ago. WFP staff told residents that the camps are no longer regarded as ‘camps for the displaced’, but as ‘rural camps’.
A sheikh from Teiga told Radio Dabanga that the more than 7,000 displaced in the camp suffer from severe hunger and worsening health conditions. The situation has deteriorated since the WFP stopped the food rations in September 2010. He stressed that the failed agricultural season and the deteriorating security situation have increased their suffering.
The camp residents criticised the so-called voluntary return programme. According to the sheikh, they will only return to their areas when the area has become “safe and secure, the displaced have been compensated, and the new settlers expelled.
Mershing
The displaced in Mershing appealed to humanitarian organisations, especially the WFP, to assist them with food, health care, education, and protection. They also called for the expulsion of new settlers who have taken their lands.
Kubum
A sheikh from Kubum camp for the displaced told Radio Dabanga that Um Labasa and Kubum camps in Kubum locality, as well as Haboba and Duggo Dosa camps of Shattai locality, are suffering from a food shortage since the WFP stopped food rations four months ago.
He added that the camp residents sent delegates to the organisation’s office in Nyala. There, WFP staff told them of the reclassification to ‘rural camps’ that need annual support with ‘seeds for planting’.
File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid
Related:
North Darfur’s Abu Shouk and El Salam camps to be ‘restructured’ (30 January 2014)
Price hikes in Sudan, fuel crisis hinders farming; MPs warn of famine (23 January 2014)
WFP stops food rations for Gaga refugee camp in Chad: Sheikh (22 January 2014)
‘Sirba camps for the displaced are now quasi-towns’: West Darfur HAC officials (8 January 2014)
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