The displaced in Darfur camps again appealed to the international community to help them by sending urgent humanitarian aid, as security and health conditions are worsening and the number op people dying of hunger and thirst is rapidly growing. The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) conference on humanitarian needs in the region will be held in the Kalma camp in South Darfur.
On Wednesday, community leaders in Kalma camp for displaced people near Nyala, capital of South Darfur, sent a new call to the “all humanitarian organisations,” in particular the UN World Food Programme (WFP), asking them to intervene immediately to save the displaced people from starvation.
Residents of El Salam camp in Beleil, southeast of Nyala, reported acute malnutrition among children and the elderly due to the lack of food. They said that most people in the camp resorted to eating locusts and doum palm fruits.
“The number of malnutrition cases in the camp grows with 10 people per day,” El Hadi Abdallah told Radio Dabanga from El Salam camp yesterday. “If possible, they are transferred to Kalma camp, where there is at least a bit of health care left.”
Adam Ishag, members of the camp’s youth administration said that “each day, a person, often a child, dies of hunger”. He added that “many a time, we cannot move patients to Kalma camp due to the lack of money for their transportation”.