Darfur 24- Report

For more than forty days, Hawa Abkar Adam has been  waiting for  an assistance that will help her to cope with the suffering that she found herself going through every moment and hour since her arrival to Otash IDP camp, fleeing the attack on her village of Rukuna, in the foothills of Jebel Marra. 

Hawa, 24, tells her ordeal to  Darfur 24 that she suffers from  a situation that  she was forced into in Otash camp, 7 km north of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

 Hawa says that the residents of six villages were displaced as a result of an attack launched by armed militias last February, but  she says she does not know which group these militias belong to.

 Aziza Ibrahim Nour, 27 years old, from the village of Fallujah in Jebel Marra, says that they suffer more from the lack of bathrooms and toilets to relieve themselves.

“Now we only use latrines of the old IDPs to ease ourselves, it’s very difficult for someone who used to live a  normal life to live in such a condition” Aziza added” 

 

Aziza said that she escaped with her four family members to the Otash camp 15 days after the attack, and now they live in “a nest ” of plastic sacks and tree sticks, its area does not exceed 2 square meters, and they do not have a bathroom or toilet, and she feels upset about this situation Which she did not get used to in her village.

 

 She stated that the tragic situation they are living in has led to the death of a number of children inside the camp, due to malnutrition and diseases caused by high temperatures in the absence of a shelter for them  from the heat. 

Imrana Ahmed Daoud, a teacher at the Dow district school in eastern Jebel Marra revealed to Darfur24 that there are children in the camp, who lost their parents during the attack, and now they have no one to care for and support them, stating  that these children are living in more tragic conditions than others.

 Nasreddin revealed that a group of more than 10 individuals carry white weapons and  threaten the displaced people  at night hours, and loot their mobile phones and demolished some of their homes.  Nasreddin  appealed to the government to protect them such criminal gangs. 

 

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