♦ This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan’s highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan
♦ North Darfur to resettle 135,000+ displaced from three camps
October 16 – 2018 EL FASHER North Darfur State has approved a plan to turn the camps for displaced people into permanent residential areas on Monday. The first phase includes the resettlement of 45,000 families.
State spokesman El Hadi Burma Saleh said they aim to resettle the families from Abu Shouk, El Salam and Zamzam camps in the first phase of the plan. Each of the camps have populations of tens of thousands of people. Considering a family holds three members at a minimum, this means the moving of at least 135,000 people. “Each family wishing to settle would be given a free piece of land with complete procedures,” Burma Saleh added.
Last June, Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) announced that displaced people in Darfur have the options to be resettled in the area where they are, or in another area – such as their areas of origin.
The voluntary return of displaced people and refugees remains the main challenge for the Sudanese government seen the large numbers of people still living in the relative safety of the camps. According to the latest global numbers, the conflict and ensuing insecurity had still displaced over 2.7 million people in Darfur.
♦ Four more die of chikungunya in Kassala, eastern Sudan
October 14 – 2018 KASSALA / JEBEIT Four people, including a child and a woman, died of chikungunya fever in Kassala. Health centres in the various districts of Kassala town are still reporting new patients, despite a significant decrease in the number of cases.
In Red Sea state, in Jebeit, three new cases were recorded in a students’ dormitory. “Clinics in Jebeit receive an average of seven patients a day,” one of the students told this station. He attributed the outbreak of the disease to a lack of mosquito nets.
Chikungunya is characterised by an abrupt onset of fever, frequently accompanied by joint pain. Most patients recover fully within weeks. Serious complications are not common but the disease can contribute to the cause of death in malnourished and older people. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in a report that laboratory tests of samples from infected people in Kassala state show cases of dengue fever along with chikungunya. The dengue virus is carried by the same mosquitoes that carry chikungunya.
The Kassala state Ministry of Health reported that the total number of people infected with chikungunya fever was 15,944 cases until Thursday. The outbreak of chikungunya fever, popularly known as kankasha, began in August after heavy rains hit the state and El Gash river flooded large pieces of land.
More news from Radio Dabanga:
October 16 – 2018 OMDURMAN The Sudanese security service has arrested nine journalist during a vigil in front of the parliament building, in protest against the ban from entering…
Child marriage 'is legalised rape': Women activists in Sudan
October 16 – 2018 KHARTOUM Women rights groups and activists have described the early marriage of girls as “legalised rape and a crime against childhood”, following a parliamentary…
‘Villagers killed by shelling in Darfur’s Jebel Marra’: Rebels
October 16 – 2018 SOUTH JEBEL MARRA Southern Jebel Marra witnessed clashes between government and rebel forces, the Sudan Liberation Movement reported yesterday…
Policeman wounded as herders raid North Darfur station
October 15 – 2018 TABIT / SOUTH JEBEL MARRA Three people including a policeman were wounded in separate incidents in Tabit in North Darfur on Saturday…
South Darfur teachers, state workers: September salaries still unpaid
October 15 – 2018 NYALA / EL FULA Teachers, officials, and civil servants in South Darfur have complained that their salaries from September have not been paid. The…
More than 100 students held in Sudan’s El Gezira
October 14 – 2018 EL HILALIYA According to a manager of El Gezira University in El Hilaliya, the authorities of El Gezira state detained more than 100 students after…
African Centre: Security situation in Darfur deteriorated in 2017
October 14 – 2018 DABANGA SUDAN According to a recent report by the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) various developments contributed to the deterioration…
‘Brutal beating’ of imprisoned student must be investigated: Amnesty
October 12 – 2018 KHARTOUM Students at the University of Khartoum have showed their solidarity with the imprisoned Asim Omar. Amnesty International reported yesterday that…
Sudan: RSF commander’s ‘North Kordofan governor should be in jail’ interview banned
October 11 – 2018 KHARTOUM The commander of Sudan’s main paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan (aka Hemeti), has said in a…
Unamid hands two key Darfur sites to Sudan govt.
October 11 – 2018 EL FASHER / NYALA The UN-AU joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur (Unamid), has officially handed over its Community Policing Centre (CPC) in Al-Salam IDP…
‘Child traffickers’ arrested in North Darfur
October 10 – 2018 EL FASHER The authorities in North Darfur arrested three men in El Kuma locality in North Darfur on Monday. They are accused of kidnapping children and…
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