HDPO and its partners continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the new IDPs in Al Fashir

Um Hagalij- Al Fashir- July 29, 2023

HDPO continues with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in the humanitarian field to intensify the response to the escalating needs in North Darfur, 4 months after the outbreak of fighting in large parts of Sudan.

Today, Saturday, July 29, 2023, HDPO provided non-food assistance to about 150 displaced families in the village of Um Hagalij, northwest of the Shagra district of Al Fashir.

270 families live in the shelter center (two schools) in Um Hagalij, a place allocated to them by the community administration in the village after they were displaced from several areas and IDP camps in the Tawila Locality following the attacks on the locality last June.

So far, 2,274 families have arrived in Shagra, Um Hagalij, and Jughi, and estimated numbers of hundreds of families distributed in Zamzam, Naivasha, and Abu Shouk camps, and inside Al Fashir while hundreds of families are still stuck in the eastern regions surrounding Marra Mountain.

During this month, HDPO could provide humanitarian aid (shelter materials) to 150 families displaced from the Tawila Locality to the Zamzam camp for the IDPs, southwest of Al Fashir, with the support of NRC.

HDPO expresses its deep concern about the deterioration of the humanitarian conditions of the new and old IDPs currently residing in the camps upon the advent of the autumn season and the continuing rains, as thousands of IDPs need humanitarian assistance (food and non-food).

In this context, the IDPs expressed their fear of their aggravating humanitarian situation in the complexities of the scene in Sudan, as they suffer from an acute shortage of health and food services and clean drinking water.

Therefore, Islam Hamid Muhammad, a displaced woman in the Um Hagalij shelter, demanded that the IDPs should be provided with food rations and indicated that they depended on water and food supplies provided to them by the host community in the village of Um Hagalij, but they have now stopped.

Islam expressed appreciation for the humanitarian assistance provided by HDPO and NRC, indicating that these shelter materials helped protect them from rain and dust, and demanded that more should be provided because some families receive shelter materials.