The General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur said in a statement that large numbers of displaced people in the Darfur region and other areas are living in camps, temporary shelters, and overcrowded accommodation facilities that lack the most basic necessities of life.
It warned that the shelter crisis in Darfur has evolved into a humanitarian emergency threatening the lives of millions of people and depriving displaced families of even the most basic conditions of safety and stability.
The Coordination appealed to the international community, the United Nations, humanitarian organisations, and donors to provide urgent and sustainable humanitarian funding.
Meanwhile, James Elder, spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), reiterated that Sudan is experiencing the world’s largest displacement and hunger crisis, yet remains largely absent from the forefront of international news coverage.
In a documentary video recorded while travelling to El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, and then onward to Blue Nile, Elder explained that three and a half years of ongoing war have meant repeated displacement, with people being forced to flee once, twice, and even three times.
He added that drones continue to target civilians, energy infrastructure, and electricity facilities, and killed dozens of people inside displacement shelters last month.
