Darfur hit by rains, fear for ‘embezzlement’ of relief goods
Torrential rains and flash floods in Darfur on Friday and Saturday injured a number of people, and destroyed dozens of homes in the camps for the displaced. In Omdurman, also by heavy downpours on Wednesday, people demonstrated on Saturday against the lack of aid. Qatar has offered support. In particular the localities of Um Dukhun and Wadi Salih in Central Darfur, Kass in South Darfur, and the area of Korma, El Fasher locality in North Darfur, were affected by the downpours on Friday and Saturday. In Central Darfur, some 30 houses were destroyed in the Ardeba, Abdel Jabar, and Tor camps. In Kass town, floods washed away 168 houses, the coordinator of the Kass camps told Radio Dabanga. “The people lost everything they owned.” He appealed to relief organisations to provide aid to the victims. In Um Dukhun town, a woman and her son were injured on Friday owing to the flash floods caused by rain bursts. About 200 sun shelters, 30 shops, and 21 houses were wiped away in Um Dukhun locality, a resident of Um Dukhun town reported to Radio Dabanga. Khartoum In El Salha district in Omdurman, the sister-city of Khartoum, where houses collapsed during very heavy downpours on Wednesday, people went to the streets in protest against the authorities’ negligence. They closed the main roads, and shouted slogans like ”We do not want to see the Governor, we want to see shelters for the newly homeless”, and “To the trash with this scum government”. Charity institutions in Qatar have allocated 900,000 Qatari Rial ($247.000) for the affected in Sudan, who until Saturday numbered about 40,000. An activist in Khartoum said that the people fear that the humanitarian aid will not reach the affected, “just like what happened last year”. After the torrents and floods that hit Sudan in August last year, the director of the Auditing Office, Abdel Munim Abdel Sayed, had reported that many relief items had been “misappropriated”. File photo: Floods in Sudan, August 2013 Related:Still no help for flood victims in Sudan’s capital (3 August 2014)Sudan’s capital paralysed by torrents, floods (30 July 2014) Torrents, floods across Sudan; 800 homes washed away in Central Darfur (27 July 2014) Sudan Minister: 40,000 households affected by rains (16 August 2013)
Torrential rains and flash floods in Darfur on Friday and Saturday injured a number of people, and destroyed dozens of homes in the camps for the displaced. In Omdurman, also by heavy downpours on Wednesday, people demonstrated on Saturday against the lack of aid. Qatar has offered support.
In particular the localities of Um Dukhun and Wadi Salih in Central Darfur, Kass in South Darfur, and the area of Korma, El Fasher locality in North Darfur, were affected by the downpours on Friday and Saturday.
In Central Darfur, some 30 houses were destroyed in the Ardeba, Abdel Jabar, and Tor camps. In Kass town, floods washed away 168 houses, the coordinator of the Kass camps told Radio Dabanga. “The people lost everything they owned.” He appealed to relief organisations to provide aid to the victims.
In Um Dukhun town, a woman and her son were injured on Friday owing to the flash floods caused by rain bursts. About 200 sun shelters, 30 shops, and 21 houses were wiped away in Um Dukhun locality, a resident of Um Dukhun town reported to Radio Dabanga.
Khartoum
In El Salha district in Omdurman, the sister-city of Khartoum, where houses collapsed during very heavy downpours on Wednesday, people went to the streets in protest against the authorities’ negligence. They closed the main roads, and shouted slogans like ”We do not want to see the Governor, we want to see shelters for the newly homeless”, and “To the trash with this scum government”.
Charity institutions in Qatar have allocated 900,000 Qatari Rial ($247.000) for the affected in Sudan, who until Saturday numbered about 40,000.
An activist in Khartoum said that the people fear that the humanitarian aid will not reach the affected, “just like what happened last year”. After the torrents and floods that hit Sudan in August last year, the director of the Auditing Office, Abdel Munim Abdel Sayed, had reported that many relief items had been “misappropriated”.
File photo: Floods in Sudan, August 2013
Related:
Still no help for flood victims in Sudan’s capital (3 August 2014)
Sudan’s capital paralysed by torrents, floods (30 July 2014)
Torrents, floods across Sudan; 800 homes washed away in Central Darfur (27 July 2014)
Sudan Minister: 40,000 households affected by rains (16 August 2013)
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