Shelter Centre

Near-verbatim transcript of the press conference by Jill Helke, Representative ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
Since April 2009, IOM has been distributing essential life-saving non food items and emergency shelter materials throughout Darfur and Northern Sudan as ...

DanChurchAid - Denmark Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 40.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe.

Source: ECHO Continued conflict and banditry in southern Darfur has left hundreds of thousands of people, who want to return home, in limbo. Five years ago, Seleah - 80 kilometres from the provincial capital, Nyala - was a village of around 6,000 inhabitants. Today, the population is four times higher.

Almost exactly a month ago, we were expelled from Darfur. Since then we have spent most days trying to get in touch with friends and colleagues there, hoping to find out what is happening in the communities which we had to leave behind. The reports we are getting from the camps are increasingly alarming.

Over the past six years, people living in the camps have been bombed, raped, robbed and forced from their homes. They have been through suffering that I cannot even imagine, and have had to rely on aid agencies for basics like food, water and shelter. Now even that is being taken from them.

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Source: AlertNet

Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At least 30,000 people have fled their homes in South Darfur state in western Sudan in recent days because of fighting between rebels and government forces, the United ...

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Source: IRIN Adam, who prefers to be known by this one name, is an internally displaced person (IDP) in an IDP camp in Zamzam, North Darfur. He fled there from his village of Um Hashaba in the same province in 2003, hoping finally to find safety. But last month, even this sanctuary was violated.

Source: IRIN As Sudan lobbies the international community for support in its fight to ward off looming charges of genocide against its president, arguing they would endanger the "great strides" the government is making towards peace, people displaced by more than five years of fighting in Darfur tell a different story.

Source: Reuters (Updates with U.N. revising down the number of displaced) By Alaa Shahine KHARTOUM, Oct 18 (Reuters) - An increase in violence in North Darfur last month has displaced at least 40,000 people, many ...