Sudan: Camp Profiling in Kalma Camp, South Darfur

18 September 2016

Khartoum — Representatives of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (Unamid) met with displaced leaders in Kalma camp in South Darfur earlier this month to address concerns over food distribution and camp profiling. In East Darfur and Khartoum, more than 8,000 South Sudanese refugees were relocated.

One of the main concerns of the displaced in Kalma camp, hosting 128,000 people, is the temporary suspension of World Food Programme (WFP) food rations for July and August, OCHA reports in its latest weekly bulletin. This suspension is a result of a delayed camp profiling exercise scheduled to start mid-June. However, because of demonstrations by a Kalma youth group that rejected the WFP camp profiling exercise, the process, officially accepted by the camp leadership, had to be postponed.

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