Sudan to provide Darfur with 10,000 tons of sorghum

Member of the Sudanese parliament for Sheiria locality in East Darfur State, Abdel Jabbar Abdallah, announced on Thursday that the Presidency has agreed to send 10,000 tons of sorghum from Sudan’s strategic reserves to East and South Darfur. The grains will be transported by railway. It will contribute to solve the food gap in both states, and consequently decrease the soaring sorghum prices. Abdel Jabbar said that the Presidency had directed the Zakat Chamber (Islamic alms) and the Humanitarian Aid Commission to send ten thousand tons of sorghum, free of charge, to be distributed to areas affected by shortage of grains in East and South Darfur. File photo: A displaced man carries a bag with millet into the Unamid base in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, where displaced sought protection against militia attacks on their camp. 14 April 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related:South Darfur food shortage 228,000 tons, East Darfur 175,000 tons (11 May 2014) Two children starve to death in North Darfur’s Shangil Tobaya (8 May 2014) Acute food shortage, people raid ant hills in East Darfur  (7 May 2014) ‘Huge food gaps in South and North Darfur’: officials (6 May 2014) ‘Intervene in food gap, price hikes’: North Darfur Parliament (27 February 2014) Food supply gap in North Darfur: agricultural survey (31 January 2014)