Sudan OCHA Bulletin 30 - Aid for Flood-Affected Displaced in South Darfur

Khartoum — Aid organisations respond to the damages caused by heavy rain and flooding in displaced people's camps in South Darfur, Sudan. An estimated 3,350 people have been displaced by tribal fighting that erupted in the first week of July in North Darfur's Mellit locality and have received food assistance. The total number of new South Sudanese refugees who arrived in Sudan has reached 198,657, exceeding the response planning figure of 196,000 people.

On 23 July, an inter-agency mission comprising UN agencies, international NGOs and local government authorities visited Kalma camp in Bielel locality, to assess such damages that occurred on 16 July. The mission found that 780 homes were damaged and all corresponding household belongings, including food stocks and seeds, had washed away. The floods also damaged 756 household latrines, 511 of which were washed away.

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