Many Darfuris have January 1 as their official birthday, so New Year’s Day has a special significance for the community. DOHS wishes everyone everywhere a very happy new year, and as always our thoughts and prayers go out to the displaced throughout the world, and to those helping them out.
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...
Four families of new arrivals get DOHS donations in Chicago
Abdulatif Isaac and Ahmed Ahmed distributed blankets, sheets, pillowcases, jackets, dresses, t-shirts, shoes, men’s dress shirts and pants to nineteen people on Dec. 19, 2015, traveling to each of the four families’ houses from 8am to 5pm that day. Since late September of this year DOHS has distributed clothing, blankets and shoes to 45 Darfuri refugees...