That is to say, the majority of Sudanese who are in situations in which they either do without food and suffer abnormally high malnutrition rates or can meet minimum food needs only by an increasing number of sacrifices that will put them at risk of going without food later. This is the Crisis level food insecurity (level...
Tag: Darfur drinking water shortage
Massive flooding in the Darfur states
From June 3 to August 6, 2015, Radio Dabanga articles have reported that heavy rains have destroyed literally hundreds of homes and flooded the following places (numbers in parenthesis indicate the reported number of homes destroyed): Kalma (761), El Salaam, Otash, Dereig (40) camps in South Darfur. Dar El Salaam (20) and Forika (12) camps...
Drinkable water shortages reported in Nyala, South Darfur, El Fasher, North Darfur and also in Kharoutm and Omdurman
The Nyala Water corporation reports that overuse of pumps at fifteen of the city’s eighteen wells broke down from overuse. The shortage has been going on for more than three weeks now. And Dabanga reports water not running in residences in El Fasher, as well as in some districts in southern Khartoum. Prices for barrels...