By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africanews
UNHCR and IOM warn that shelter stocks are running out in Sudan, where 15.4 million displaced people need them and a lack of funding severely limits aid. Only 10% of the displaced are being helped, according to the two UN agencies.
About 15.4 million displaced Sudanese need emergency shelter, but lack of funding means only 10% of them can be helped, according to UNHCR and IOM. IOM has distributed more than 40,000 tonnes this year, but its warehouses are empty, said its head of mission in Sudan Mohamed Refaat, TimesLIVE reports.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Source: TimesLIVE ·
Around 150,000 displaced people in the Bentiu and Malakal camps in South Sudan are threatened by cholera after cuts in humanitarian funding and the withdrawal of aid organisations, warns Médecins sans frontières (MSF), according to Radio Tamazuj. MSF calls on donors to maintain water, sanitation and basic health services.
🇸🇸 South Sudan · Source: Radio Tamazuj ·
The United Nations warns that emergency stocks for the millions of Sudanese displaced by the war risk running out for lack of funding, as families try to return to their destroyed homes. Humanitarian aid could collapse and leave families without shelter, according to the UN.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Source: ONU Info ·
Forty-five cases of viral hepatitis have been recorded at the Kalma displaced people’s camp in Sudan’s South Darfur state, according to its coordination committee. Residents face shortages of medicines and healthcare, while the war is restricting access to humanitarian aid, reports Sudan Tribune.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Source: Sudan Tribune ·
Sudanese army imposes siege on Al-NuhudSudanese armed forces are imposing a complete siege on Al-Nuhud, in western Sudan, according to sources cited by Baj News. The army is also continuing heavy artillery fire against Rapid Support Forces positions around the city.
Flooded wolframite mine in Kigali kills seven minersSeven miners died after underground galleries flooded at a wolframite mine operated by Calliane Mines Ltd in Mageragere, in the district of Nyarugenge in Kigali. Rescuers recovered all seven bodies, and local authorities announced that burials were under way, according to KT Press.The week in Africa
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