The United Nations Emergency Aid Office, OCHA on Tuesday revealed that People no longer had enough to eat in Sudan’s Darfur region in what could potentially drift into a health crisis.
The Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, Paola Emerson revealed that half of the inhabitants in the region, around 62 million people, will depend on humanitarian aid in the coming year.
However, the depressing situation is due to the drought as well as pest infestations and disease.
Meanwhile, water sources and meadows have dried up and the livestock is in a correspondingly poor condition,’ Emerson said, while domestic conflicts were also increasing, with armed fighters and criminals harassing the population.
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Toby Harward, coordinator of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Darfur, said that since November, almost 10,000 people had been displaced in West Darfur due to fights between rival groups.
He added that more than 2,000 of them had fled to neighbouring Chad, which already accommodates 520,000 refugees, of which 80 percent of them were from Sudan.
Harward said that there were also alarming reports from other parts of Darfur about the destruction of villages, sexual violence, and livestock theft.
Africa Today News, New York understands that in Sudan, three million people are internally displaced, with 80 percent of them living in Darfur.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK