WFP / DARFUR

New violence in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has prompted more than 250,000 people to flee their villages and abandon their livelihoods since the start of the year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today (24 July).

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:12
• Production Date: 24 July 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS-AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN DARFUR - UNAMID
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U130724c

Description

STORY: WFP / DARFUR
TRT: 2.12
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: JULY 2013, ABOU SHOUK CAMP, EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR / IDP CAMP GENEINA, WEST DARFUR / KHARTOUM, SUDAN

Shotlist

12 JULY 2013, EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR, SUDAN

1. Various shots, displaced people in makeshift shelters

16 JULY 2013, IN KHARTOUM, SUDAN

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Khan, Sudan Country Director, WFP:
“We are facing in 2013 fresh displacements so we have roughly 250 thousand freshly displaced in Darfur.”

13 JULY 2013, ABOU SHOUK CAMP, EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR, SUDAN

3. Pan right, UNAMID car patrolling the camp
4. Various shots, family resting

12 JULY 2013, ZAM ZAM CAMP, EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR

5. Various shots, WFP food distribution, people receive sorghum, sugar and vegetable oil

16 JULY 2013, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Khan Sudan Country Director, WFP:
“Well, in addition to general food distribution that we have for displaced population and those severely affected by conflict, WFP, World Food Programme has other range of activities which are layered over its general food distribution programme which include, nutritional activities, which include school feeding, which include food for work, food for assets, food for training and which have cash vouchers to stimulate the market.”

14 JULY 2013, ARDAMATA IDP CAMP GENEINA, WEST DARFUR

7. Various shots, participants being trained on how to make fuel-efficient stoves and to establish and maintain tree nurseries

11 JULY 2013, ABOU SHOUK CAMP, EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR

8. Various shots, WFP food vouchers distribution,
9. Various shots, women getting the vouchers
10. Various shots, women buying food from the stores

14 JULY 2013, AL MADINA ALMNWRA SCHOOL, GENEINA, WEST DARFUR

11. Various shots, school children in the classroom
12. Various shots, school children eating outside

Storyline

New violence in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has prompted more than 250,000 people to flee their villages and abandon their livelihoods since the start of the year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today (24 July).

The decade-long conflict has escalated recently, due to inter-tribal conflicts over agricultural land and resources, creating the largest wave of population displacement that the region has seen in recent years and straining WFP’s ability to feed vulnerable families.

Adnan Khan WFP’s Country Director in Sudan said that with the new displacements in 2013, “we have roughly 250 thousand freshly displaced in Darfur”

The nature of the conflict evolved and is becoming more complex, involving more groups in almost all areas of Darfur.

In addition to the 250,000 people who are internally displaced within Sudan, according to UNHCR about 30,000 Sudanese are reported to have crossed over into neighbouring Chad in the past few months. So far about 16,000 have settled and are assisted in the new refugee camp of Abgadam in the Tissi area, adding to the 300,000 Darfur refugees who have been in Chad for the past few years.

In other parts of the country, in the conflict-affected states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan bordering the Republic of South Sudan, more than 100,000 people were also recently displaced due to a resurgence of violence. WFP is responding to provide food assistance in the areas to which it has access.

Khan said that in addition to the general food distribution for displaced population WFP had other range of activities which includes, “nutritional activities, which include school feeding, which include food for work, food for assets, food for training and which have cash vouchers to stimulate the market.”

In Sudan, the majority of WFP’s operation takes place in Darfur, where the UN food agency had planned to feed 2.7 million people across Darfur at the beginning of the year, including 1.4 million living in camps. With the recent displacements, the total number of people receiving assistance in Darfur is expected to climb above 2.9 million people.

WFP has so far raised only US$180 million out of its operational budget of US$397 million to be able to feed 3.9 million conflict-affected people in Sudan. Despite a good harvest in 2012, food security remains fragile and is threatened by a combination of conflict, insecurity and high food prices.