Among the major news stories in Sudan now are the widespread number cases of persons suffering watery diarrhea (1). The government denies cholera is to blame for them, but some, if not all, doctors operating outside the governent disagree (1, 2). Blue Nile and Sennar States are among the worst hit (they also saw some...
Author: Run Ner
“We foresee a major environmental and health disaster…”: a summary of several Radio Dabanga articles from July 25 to August 8
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is part of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network; NOAA specializes in weather forecasts. In June FEWSNet posted on its Sudan page that the Nile River and its tributaries had already reached high levels (especially the Blue Nile), and that more rain predicted for Ethiopia and Eritrea’s highlands...
Seven months into the year, UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response Plan is only 22.5% funded
That is, as of July, only 214 million of the requested 952 million US dollars has been received (1). That money is intended to help 4.6 million Sudanese this year (2). It’s been confirmed that just under 81,000 people in 2016 have been driven from their homes in Darfur this year, with another 170,000 reported...