Late start to below-average rains lessens 2015 crop yields, preventing food security improvement in Darfur; 10,000 displaced on attack on 34 Kutum Locality villages

Thirty-four villages in Kutum Locality, North Darfur State were attacked on December 2 and 3.  Fourteen villages were burned, another twenty looted; five people were killed and about ten thousand were displaced, mostly to the mountains, were they remained as of December 20, according to UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Bulletin for Sudan (1).  Aid groups were planning to...

Blankets, sheets, clothing and shoes on their way to nineteen new arrivals in the Chicago area

DOHS decided to send most of its Louisville clothing and blanket supply to help our members in Chicago give four families of Darfuri refugees what they need for the cold weather.  Khamiss Youssif traveled from Louisville to Indianapolis to meet Abdulatif Isaac and Ahmed Ahmed, who came down from Chicago.  Pictured left to right below are Ahmed Ahmed (one of...

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