About 150,307 persons have reportedly been driven from their homes in the Jebel Marra region, which is in and around the area where North, Central and South Darfur States meet. The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has been able to establish direct flights from the North Darfur state capital of El Fasher to Sortony (one of the largest...
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Displaced population in Darfur now about the same as the 2010 population of Chicago, Illinois; UNOCHA: Over 96,000 people driven from their homes in Jebel Marra
Jebel Marra is the name of a collection of volcanic mountains reaching up to 9,980 feet in the middle of the Darfur region (1), specifically between Zalengei in Central Darfur, Kutum in North Darfur and Kass in South Darfur (2); it has caves and many valleys and is the stronghold of the rebel group known as the Sudan...
In North Darfur State alone, 87,502 people driven from their homes by fighting in Jebel Marra
Marta Ruedas, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement today that there are 63,223 displaced persons in the area of Sortony, another 63,223 people in the Tawila area and 2,018 more in Kabkabiya, all displaced by the recent bombing, militia attacks and fighting in the Jebel Marra area to the south...