Kauda, August 7(Darfur24)
A spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, led by Abdulaziz Al-Hilu announced a significant deterioration in the humanitarian conditions of the displaced people IDPs in the areas controlled by the movement, amid increasing cases of malnutrition among children.
The movement’s spokesman, Jatigo Amoja Dalman, told Darfur24 that the IDPs who fled to the areas controlled by the movement due to the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, are suffering from difficult humanitarian conditions in light of the severe shortage of food supplies and the weak response of international organizations.
He explained that the number of displaced people in the Nuba Mountains region reached 724,962 people, while 55,000 people reached the areas controlled by the movement in the Blue Nile region.
He added that “these displaced people were hosted in designated camps, but the response of relief agencies was minimal, which led to a severe shortage of food supplies and an increase in cases of malnutrition, especially among children, amid high mortality rates.
Dalman pointed out that the civil authority of the new Sudan has granted the displaced people housing sites and agricultural areas, but the scarcity of seeds and the lack of means of production, in addition to the difficult health and psychological conditions, make it difficult to benefit from these agricultural lands, stressing that the humanitarian crisis will continue to worsen unless UN agencies intervene urgently.
Dalman touched on the situation in the N’Djamena market in Abu Zabad locality in North Kordofan State, which was the only outlet for food supplies to reach the cities of South Kordofan before it was closed.
He said that the army closed the market to prevent the areas controlled by the SPLM from benefiting, denying any connection between the movement and the market closure.
He added that the situation in the city of Deling is due to the sale of South Kordofan State’s share of humanitarian aid in Port Sudan and the use of its revenues to support the mobilized committees, stressing that the SPLM has no presence along the road from Port Sudan to Deling.
Dalman explained that the last round of negotiations on the humanitarian file in Juba witnessed the movement’s delegation presenting three practical proposals to deliver aid, but the army rejected them all, which prompted the mediation of the State of South Sudan to suspend the talks for further consultations after the army’s intransigence.