The rainy season and flash flooding have made South Sudanese refugees’ lives harder in Sudan. UNHCR assists the displaced with core relief items such as blankets, solar lamps, jerry cans, and more.
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The rainy season and flash flooding have made South Sudanese refugees’ lives harder in Sudan. UNHCR assists the displaced with core relief items such as blankets, solar lamps, jerry cans, and more.
Since the beginning of 2022, about 298,000 people were displaced due to conflict, and 896 people were reported killed and another 1,092 injured because of conflict and violence.
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UNHCR is working with the government and partners to scale up response, but efforts to provide lifesaving support to refugees and displaced Sudanese face immense strain because of acute underfunding.
As downpours continue, the organisation fears more lives and homes will be lost in the coming days and weeks, with the rains expected to last through to September. At least 83 people have died.
The Humanitarian Response Plan prioritizes life-saving multi-sectoral assistance to the most vulnerable people, including response readiness for recurring flooding, conflict, and disease outbreaks.
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Months after its creation, Alganaa refugee camp in Sudan’s White Nile State has been submerged by flood waters, leaving some 35,000 South Sudanese refugees needing urgent assistance.
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The removal of economic support due to political instability is likely to result in persistent currency depreciation with high volatility, rising inflation, and high food and nonfood costs.
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Food, clean water, shelter and sanitation are desperately insufficient, and an increasing number of people suffer from malnutrition. The onset of the rainy season has worsened the situation.
Many of those affected had been previously displaced by conflict and were already facing loss of income due to the economic challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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While incidents of fighting have reduced, the situation of people displaced due to decades of conflict remains unresolved. Over 2.7 million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
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More than 19,640 homes have been destroyed and aid organizations continue to respond with food, emergency shelter and household supplies.
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Based on the attack rate projections another 36,000 to 40,000 cases are expected over the next six to nine months, according to the government and WHO.
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Hundreds of IDP shelters were damaged or completely destroyed, assets lost, and latrines collapsed. No injuries or deaths were reported after flash floods hit the Kalma camp.
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Flooding as a result of heavy rainfall has continued across Sudan. Some 29 people have been reportedly killed and 122,210 people are estimated to have been affected since June.
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More than 300 latrines and 500 houses were destroyed and more damaged in Shangil Tobaya locality, North Darfur, affecting many of the estimated 20,500 people in Nifasha camp for IDPs.
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As flash floods and heavy rains in June affected almost 15,000 people, an 80 per cent chance of above average to average rainfall is expected over the 2016 rainy seasons.
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Heavy rains and flash floods in Sennar State have destroyed 1,160 houses and damaged another 1,320 homes. In El Gezira State, heavy rains and strong winds have destroyed several buildings.
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Sudan, which is struggling with 6.9 million people needing humanitarian assistance, is now home to almost 100,000 refugees from South Sudan. The appeal is only 47 percent funded out of US$988 million requested.
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The Floods Task Force – co-chaired by the Government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission and OCHA – has been activated to respond based on identified needs, prioritizing and targeting the most vulnerable people.
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With humanitarian attention focused on massive displacement crises in South Sudan and CAR, lack of international attention to Sudan’s equally grave internal displacement crisis and on-going conflicts has resulted in an inadequate funding response.