SUDAN’S DARFUR CONFLICT IS FORCING THOUSANDS TO FLEE TO NEIGHBORING CHAD FOR SAFETY: UN

Thu 13 July 2023:

Each day, thousands of people in the Sudanese area of Darfur opt to leave their homes to seek sanctuary in neighboring Chad, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its operation to support the new arrivals, many of whom are injured. So far, the agency has delivered food and nutrition assistance to more than 150,000 people on the Chad-Sudan border.

“It is also essential that WFP can safely deliver food aid to civilians remaining in West Darfur,” OCHA said. “So far, the agency has been able to provide food and nutrition support to more than 420,000 people in East, North, South and Central Darfur, but the current security situation in West Darfur makes safe operations there impossible.”

In southeastern Sudan, the office said that the Food and Agriculture Organization works to increase local food production where possible, distributing seeds for the planting season. Trucks carrying about 50 tons of sorghum seed arrived Monday in Blue Nile State, while the agency dispatched truckloads of seed to other accessible locations.

Between May 22 and July 7, OCHA said, it facilitated the movement of more than 630 trucks carrying over 28,500 tons of aid to 10 states in Sudan.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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