El Fasher, July 4(Darfur 24)
More than 10,000 displaced people IDPs who arrived from the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, to the city of Al-Dabba in the Northern State, face tragic conditions and difficult humanitarian conditions in light of the lack of intervention by organizations and authorities to provide them with humanitarian aid.
One of the displaced people in the city of Al-Dabbah, Hussein Yahya Abdul-Malik, revealed to Darfur 24 about the bad conditions experienced by families who fled the city of El-Fasher without being provided with food, shelter, and water from organizations and the UNHCR, noting that they received some aid from charities in the Al-Dabbah area.
He considered that the local authorities ignored them and did not visit them as a puzzling matter. He added, “The residents of Al-Dabba provided us with food, medicine, and hospitality, but what prevents us from visiting the official authorities, especially since most of the displaced are women, children, and the elderly, and there are no young people among them to help their families.”
For her part, one of the displaced women confirmed that there are a number of pregnant and breastfeeding women in need of health care and attention, and she appealed to national and international organizations to intervene urgently and provide tarpaulins, mattresses and utensils to confront the heat wave.
She added, “We spent two weeks fleeing El Fasher, and we almost died in the desert after the truck broke down, along with children and people with chronic diseases.”
According to “Darfur 24” sources, local authorities are still working to identify a site to shelter the displaced, inventory them, and determine their basic needs.
A source who preferred to withhold his name told “Darfur 24” that the number of people arriving in Al-Dabbah reached 10,000 people, with families on the road between Al-Dabbah and the outskirts of Kordofan, expecting the number to rise to 15,000 during this month.
He stated that what the authorities are doing is a predatory act and is not consistent with the state of emergency in the country to receive displaced people from active war zones, calling on the Executive Director to visit the displaced people in their places of residence on the outskirts of the livestock market, palm farms and some neighborhoods.
About 45,000 fled to the Tawila, Jebel Marra, Nyala and El Daein areas, according to the General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur.
The fighting in Al-Fasher left about 2,000 people dead and wounded, hundreds of homes were destroyed, and Al-Fasher Southern Hospital, the dialysis center, and the Babiker Nahar Children’s Hospital were out of service after the bombing that affected them.
The Saudi Specialized Hospital is working to receive the dead and wounded despite being subjected to bombing and attack, according to Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Khater, Director General of the Ministry of Health in North Darfur.