HIGHLIGHTS
• Over 22,600 returnees to Muradaf village will be relocated to other locations to prevent possible conflict with the village landowners.
• Suspected dengue fever cases stand at 523.
• According the Food Security Monitoring Unit (FSMU), some 45,000 people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states have been displaced due to poor harvests.
• In Blue Nile state, WFP distributed food to 24,843 people in El Roseires, Bau, and Ed Damazine localities.
• The BRACED programme aims to build resilience of families and communities in North, South and West Darfur states.
FIGURES 2015 HRP
Displaced people in Sudan (as of Dec 2014) 3.1 million
Displaced people in Darfur (as of Dec 2014) (in 2015) 2.5 million 233,000
GAM burden 2 million
South Sudanese refugee arrivals in Sudan - since 15 Dec 2013 (UNHCR) 198,707
Refugees of other nationalities (UNHCR) 173,441
FUNDING
1.04 billion requested in 2015 (US$) 57% reported funding
Returnees to Muradaf village, Central Darfur, will be relocated to other areas in Um Dukhun locality
On 16 December, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Sudanese Commission of Refugees (COR) conducted a verification mission to Central Darfur’s Muradaf village, Um Dukhun locality, to verify reports of the return of 30,000 people from refugee camps in Chad. The verification team identified that 22,617 Sudanese citizens from the Salamat tribe have returned to Muradaf village this year. The Government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) in Central Darfur is concerned about the returns to Muradaf village as the village belongs to the Fur tribe who are currently displaced in camps in Um Dukhun. If the Salamat settle in the village, conflict with the landowners is possible. Consequently, HAC has requested UNHCR and COR to conduct another mission in January 2016 to register the returnees before an inter-sectoral assessment is conducted. According to HAC, the government plans is to relocate the returnees to three areas in Um Dukhun locality to avoid possible conflict with the landowners.
The returnees are in need of emergency shelter and household supplies as well as water and sanitation services, according to findings of a mission conducted to the area by the Government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), the international NGO Triangle Génération Humanitaire (TGH), and traditional leaders on 17 November. The existing water points are in need of rehabilitation and people are drinking from the nearby wadi.
Also, the lack of a proper sanitation system is putting the population at risk of contracting diseases.
These returnees fled their home villages and from Um Dukhun town in 2013 due to intertribal fighting between the Misseriya and Salamat tribes. According to the returnees, they had been living in Abu Gadam refugee camp in Chad until June 2015 when the Chadian Government decided to close the camp and move the refugees about 110 kilometres inside Chad. The refugees opted to return to Sudan but not to their areas of origin in villages to the south of Um Dukhun town, which they still see as unsafe to return to due to the continued presence of Misseriya tribesmen in these areas.