Downpours damage more than 3,700 homes in Darfur
Heavy downpours damaged more than 3,000 homes at the Nierteti camps in Central Darfur on Monday and Tuesday. More than 700 homes collapsed in South Darfur’s Kalma camp owing to torrential rains and floods this week. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a displaced woman from the Nierteti South camp reported that the victims, “living now in the open”, are in urgent need of aid. She said that the relief organisations operating in the area did not provide any aid so far, and accused employees of the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission of using tarpaulins and mosquito nets, to be distributed to the displaced, themselves. In Kalma camp, near Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, more than 700 homes collapsed this week. Saleh Eisa, the secretary-general of Kalma camp reported to Radio Dabanga that the torrential rains led to the damaging or destruction of 500 shelters in Block 1, 200 in Block 8, and a large number of other homes in the rest of the camp. “The flooding also blocked many streets of the camp, and seriously affects the health of the displaced.” Eisa explained that the newly displaced are using sacks to protect themselves against the sun and the rains. “In particular the newly displaced, registered in 2014, are in dire need of assistance, such as non-food items and shelter materials. Representatives of relief organisations had promised them to provide these items months ago, but the newly displaced are still waiting.” “About 3,000 newly displaced families have also not received foodstuffs.” The camps for the displaced in South Darfur received tens of thousands of new displaced in March this year, after paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, under command of the Sudanese security apparatus, attacked and torched large numbers of villages in the areas southeast of the state’s capital Nyala. File photo Related:Floods destroy homes, isolate villages in Darfur, eastern Sudan (15 September 2014) Torrential rains kill 19 in Central and South Darfur (4 September 2014) Torrential rains kill three, destroy more than 9,000 homes in Darfur (2 September 2014) More than 2,000 homes washed away by rains in Darfur (31 August 2014)
Heavy downpours damaged more than 3,000 homes at the Nierteti camps in Central Darfur on Monday and Tuesday. More than 700 homes collapsed in South Darfur’s Kalma camp owing to torrential rains and floods this week.
Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a displaced woman from the Nierteti South camp reported that the victims, “living now in the open”, are in urgent need of aid.
She said that the relief organisations operating in the area did not provide any aid so far, and accused employees of the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission of using tarpaulins and mosquito nets, to be distributed to the displaced, themselves.
In Kalma camp, near Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, more than 700 homes collapsed this week.
Saleh Eisa, the secretary-general of Kalma camp reported to Radio Dabanga that the torrential rains led to the damaging or destruction of 500 shelters in Block 1, 200 in Block 8, and a large number of other homes in the rest of the camp. “The flooding also blocked many streets of the camp, and seriously affects the health of the displaced.”
Eisa explained that the newly displaced are using sacks to protect themselves against the sun and the rains. “In particular the newly displaced, registered in 2014, are in dire need of assistance, such as non-food items and shelter materials. Representatives of relief organisations had promised them to provide these items months ago, but the newly displaced are still waiting.”
“About 3,000 newly displaced families have also not received foodstuffs.”
The camps for the displaced in South Darfur received tens of thousands of new displaced in March this year, after paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, under command of the Sudanese security apparatus, attacked and torched large numbers of villages in the areas southeast of the state’s capital Nyala.
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Floods destroy homes, isolate villages in Darfur, eastern Sudan (15 September 2014)
Torrential rains kill 19 in Central and South Darfur (4 September 2014)
Torrential rains kill three, destroy more than 9,000 homes in Darfur (2 September 2014)
More than 2,000 homes washed away by rains in Darfur (31 August 2014)
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