UNOCHA has reported that the daily amount of water needed by one person for basic needs (drinking, washing, cooking) is about 11.25 liters, give or take 3.75 liters, depending on the person’s physiology and the climate in which they live (1). Even though most of the inhabited part of Darfur is semidesert (with the drier...
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USAID donates food worth $135 Million to the World Food Program in Sudan
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...
What if you had no electricity, gas or money for firewood?
The answer is the same anywhere in the world for someone in this position: you would have to go out and find firewood. If you live in a war zone, you would be in grave danger. In Darfur, civilians looking for firewood are often very brutally attacked. Reading over the articles of the Darfuri-run news...