Sorghum, lentils and cooking oil from USAID is intended to help the WFP serve 1.8 million people in Darfur during the lean season. It will help over a half million Darfuri school children and about 262,000 more schoolkids in eastern and central Sudan. Dabanga reports that the United States has donated $626 million to the...
Author: Run Ner
Displaced in Adila, Abu Karinka and North Jebel Mara localities among the worst in need: UNOCHA
34,000 displaced persons in North Jebel Mara Locality, Central Darfur State cannot be reached by aid groups due to insecurity and the restrictions of local authorities. And another 6,200 in East Darfur State’s Adila and Abu Karninka Localities need emergency shelter (plastic sheeting or if they are even more lucky a ready-made tent), household supplies...
International Red Cross and Red Crescent prepare for election violence
National elections in Sudan will be held April 13 through 15, despite boycotting by major political opposition parties. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has been preparing for casualties of violent dispersals of protests, especially in Blue Nile, South and West Kordofan, White Nile, Khartoum and all five Darfur states. Each...