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...
16,500 newly displaced in Central, South and North Darfur, according to UNOCHA
6,000 of those persons came from the Jebel Marra area to Guldo in Central Darfur state, allegedly due to militia attacks and lack of aid. Another 1,800 are now in villages in Katayla Locality in South Darfur after escaping severe intertribal fighting last month. Sadly, intertribal fighting also displaced some 8,700 more people from villages...
UNICEF: Sudan one of “the worst children’s emergencies in the world.”
In January and February of this year, UNICEF was only able to help 18,000 children with severe acute malnutrition, out of about 1.8 million children estimated to have this condition. Measles is now officially an epidemic in thirteen of Sudan’s eighteen states, with 1,120 cases confirmed nationwide. The agency reacted to the problem by preparing...