June 17(Darfur24)
The World Food Program WFP said that Sudanese refugees continue to arrive in Libya, with the total number registered with the UNHCR reaching more than 40,000 as of the end of last May.
WFP launched an appeal for the response plan for Sudanese refugees in Libya, to obtain funding for $43 million, including $4 million to provide food aid to 55,000 Sudanese refugees suffering from food insecurity.
WFP pointed out that it had strengthened its stock of emergency food aid by storing 83 tons in Tripoli and Benghazi. Pointing out that food aid was provided to 480 migrants who were expelled from Tunisia to the Libyan border.
Kufra Municipality spokesman Abdullah Suleiman said that the number of Sudanese refugees in the city exceeded 15,000 refugees, according to the latest official statistics.
Suleiman said in an intervention with Al-Ahrar that the number of refugees has become equivalent to a third of the city’s population, noting the continued influx of Sudanese refugees since the outbreak of war in their country.
Suleiman added that the number of refugees is increasing with the expansion of the conflict there, and that Kufra has become their first destination as it is the closest city to the border.
Suleiman pointed out that the municipality needs more government support to confront the repercussions of the refugee wave, especially the health and environmental ones.
For his part, the spokesman for the Sudanese Refugee Coordination, Adam, called on the international community and international organizations to pay attention to the Sudanese refugees who took refuge in Libya and other regional countries.
Rijal pointed out in an intervention with Al-Ahrar that the increase in the pace of war, its elimination of all aspects of service and vital life, the centers and warehouses of international organizations, and the emergence of a large food gap in Sudan, led to an increase in the number of refugees and those wishing to seek refuge in neighboring countries, especially Libya, according to him.
My municipality counted about 100 refugees in the city infected with HIV/AIDS, in addition to 800 others infected with hepatitis.
As for malaria, the number of infected people reached 100 out of more than 15,000 refugees who arrived in the city, according to him.