Darfur, Sudan - Humanitarian Emergency
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Regional Team: ECA
East Africa
Disaster Declared: 10/01/2004
Brief Description: Insecurity in the three states of Darfur, the western region of Sudan, has steadily increased since the Darfur-based opposition Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army ( SLM/A) attacked Government of Sudan (GOS) military forces at El Fasher, North Darfur, on April 24 and 25, 2003. Fighting between two main opposition groups-the SLM/A and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)-the GOS military, and GOS-supported militia groups collectively known as Jingaweit intensified during late 2003. The humanitarian emergency in Darfur is a direct result of violence toward the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massalit civilian groups by GOS forces and the Jingaweit. Conflict-affected populations describe recurrent and systematic attacks against towns and villages, burnings of buildings and crops, arbitrary killings, rape and sexual violence, and looting. According to the United Nations (U.N.), approximately 1.88 million people are internally displaced in Darfur, and approximately 200,000 people have fled across the border into neighboring Chad, out of an estimated population of 6.5 million within Darfur.
In April 2004, USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) mobilized a Disaster Assistance Response Team to respond to the large-scale crisis in Darfur and continues to maintain a sizeable presence in Khartoum, El Fasher, Nyala, and Geneina. To date in FY 2005, OFDA has provided more than $57 million to support the work of four non-governmental organizations (NGOs), five U.N. organizations, and one international organization in the sectors of health, water and sanitation, food security, nutrition, shelter, logistics, emergency relief supplies, coordination, prevention of sexual violence, camp management, and road rehabilitation . These programs build on the work of 24 implementing partners funded by OFDA in FY 2004.
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