On January 31, in Louisville, DOHS received very generous donations of bed linens, blankets, comforters, women’s clothes and newborns’ clothes from two donors. Even the newborn clothing is needed because, as you can see from previous distributions, we provide for people of all ages (click on the Blankets, Clothing and Shoes Collection tab just below our name on the home...
Tag: Darfur civlian resilience
Violence in Mouli village displaces about a thousand to El Geneina, West Darfur; war in Jebel Marra displaces hundreds
After the village of Mouli was attacked and looted on January 9 by militiamen (with five villagers and three militiamen killed) (1), approximately one thousand villagers went to the state capital a few miles to the north, El Geneina (2). On January 10 they were joined by residents of El Geneina in front of the...
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...