‘Sudan security denies Unamid and Unicef access to North Darfur camp’: sheikh
Hundreds of families who fled from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on their villages west of in North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher have arrived to the camps for the displaced in El Fasher locality and various districts of El Fasher town. Security forces have denied Unicef and Unamid access to Zamzam camp, and prohibited thousands of newly displaced to leave Shagra area. One of the sheikhs of Zamzam camp told Radio Dabanga that during the last week about 8,500 newly displaced arrived at the camp. The people fled from the RSF attacks on Sarafaya, 5km west of El Fasher, from Uzbani, Korma and Kobe, also in El Fasher locality, and from East Jebel Marra. “They are currently hosted in the north-western part of the camp. The Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have registered 5,000, without providing any assistance so far.” “The security forces denied representatives from Unamid and Unicef access to Zamzam camp last Wednesday. The UN agencies intended to assess the conditions of the newly displaced. Several people who had fled the RSF attacks told us that the authorities had denied about 30,000 displaced from leaving the area of Shagra.” The Sheikh demanded the IOM to speed up the completion of registration of the newly displaced and urged the authorities and humanitarian organisations to accelerate the provision of aid “because they are living in the open, without shelter, food or cover”. No aid so far On Saturday and Sunday, 4,235 people arrived at El Salam camp in El Fasher locality. A camp sheikh reported to Radio Dabanga that the influx of newly displaced is still ongoing, explaining that most of the people who arrived at El Salam camp have fled the villages of Birka, Korma, Keinat east and west, Goz EL Na’im and Totoura. “There must be thousands of newly displaced stranded in the areas of Shagra and Golo, west of El Fasher.” The sheikh described the conditions of the newly displaced as “very hard”. “They did not receive any aid so far.” In the Abu Shouk camp committees have been formed to record the number of newly displaced. “They are living in awful conditions,” a Abu Shouk camp sheikh said. He urged the authorities and humanitarian organisations to speed up their help. File photo: A provisionally shelter near the Kalma camp for the displaced in South Darfur, 9 March 2014. Tens of thousands people had to flee from their homes when the RSF, under the command of the Sudanese security apparatus, attacked more than 35 villages in the area southeast of Nyala. (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related:Number of displaced fleeing to North Darfur capital grows (28 March 2014)More than 10,000 livestock stolen in North Darfur (25 March 2014)Unamid protects displaced following Darfur violence (24 March 2014) At least eight villages destroyed in area west of North Darfur’s El Fasher (21 March 2014) Darfur’s East Jebel Marra bombarded again; thousands displaced (18 March 2014)
Hundreds of families who fled from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on their villages west of in North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher have arrived to the camps for the displaced in El Fasher locality and various districts of El Fasher town. Security forces have denied Unicef and Unamid access to Zamzam camp, and prohibited thousands of newly displaced to leave Shagra area.
One of the sheikhs of Zamzam camp told Radio Dabanga that during the last week about 8,500 newly displaced arrived at the camp. The people fled from the RSF attacks on Sarafaya, 5km west of El Fasher, from Uzbani, Korma and Kobe, also in El Fasher locality, and from East Jebel Marra.
“They are currently hosted in the north-western part of the camp. The Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have registered 5,000, without providing any assistance so far.”
“The security forces denied representatives from Unamid and Unicef access to Zamzam camp last Wednesday. The UN agencies intended to assess the conditions of the newly displaced. Several people who had fled the RSF attacks told us that the authorities had denied about 30,000 displaced from leaving the area of Shagra.”
The Sheikh demanded the IOM to speed up the completion of registration of the newly displaced and urged the authorities and humanitarian organisations to accelerate the provision of aid “because they are living in the open, without shelter, food or cover”.
No aid so far
On Saturday and Sunday, 4,235 people arrived at El Salam camp in El Fasher locality. A camp sheikh reported to Radio Dabanga that the influx of newly displaced is still ongoing, explaining that most of the people who arrived at El Salam camp have fled the villages of Birka, Korma, Keinat east and west, Goz EL Na’im and Totoura. “There must be thousands of newly displaced stranded in the areas of Shagra and Golo, west of El Fasher.”
The sheikh described the conditions of the newly displaced as “very hard”. “They did not receive any aid so far.”
In the Abu Shouk camp committees have been formed to record the number of newly displaced. “They are living in awful conditions,” a Abu Shouk camp sheikh said. He urged the authorities and humanitarian organisations to speed up their help.
File photo: A provisionally shelter near the Kalma camp for the displaced in South Darfur, 9 March 2014. Tens of thousands people had to flee from their homes when the RSF, under the command of the Sudanese security apparatus, attacked more than 35 villages in the area southeast of Nyala. (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
Related:
Number of displaced fleeing to North Darfur capital grows (28 March 2014)
More than 10,000 livestock stolen in North Darfur (25 March 2014)
Unamid protects displaced following Darfur violence (24 March 2014)
At least eight villages destroyed in area west of North Darfur’s El Fasher (21 March 2014)
Darfur’s East Jebel Marra bombarded again; thousands displaced (18 March 2014)
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