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IRNA Report: Raja County (Raja town, Diem Jalab, Menemba, Katta & Boromedina) Western Bahr el Ghazal State (20th – 22nd May 2015)

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Situation overview

Following reported bombings and claims of displacement in Raja Town. The Inter-Cluster Working Group (ICWG) in WBeG State requested OCHA to facilitate and lead and IRNA mission in the county to verify claims of displacement and assess the general Humanitarian and protection situation of both old and new caseloads of IDPs in the County.
The IRNA team had two major objectives:

  1. To assess the humanitarian impact of the displaced population in Raja town as a result of the alleged Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) bombardment on the 30th Dec 2014, 23rd March, 7th and 10th April 2015 in Deleba and Deim-,Jalab, Ringi Payam in Raja County. The displaced people reportedly fled to Raja town and Menemba.

  2. To assess the humanitarian and Protection needs of the old IDP caseload in Mememba B that fled from Hufra-nash in 2006 and former Darfurian IDPs in Boromedina. WFP and partners provides food aid and other humanitarian assistance to these groups to date. Now it is widely believe that the two communities have sufficiently integrated into their host communities with diversified livelihoods strategies. WFP is contemplating on re-strategizing its food assistance to the displaced communities that will also benefit the host in order to avoid community resentments particularly when both the displaced and the host communities are sharing the same basic social services.
    In order to enable WFP reach an informed decision to re-strategies their humanitarian assistance to the two displaced communities, the IRNA team was requested to look into the food security and livelihoods situation of the IDPs and make recommendations for the way forward.
    The recent IDPs in Raja town some 63HHs fled from series of alleged SAF bombardments from Deim-Jalab and Kparakpara, River Boro and Delaba communities, north of Raja County. Also in Raja Town, some 43hh IDPs fled aerial bombardment from Sirimalaga and Kafiandibei on the 25th of May 2012 when Antonov planes coming from the North.

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