Highlights
• Since early June, more than 200,000 people are affected by heavy rains and flooding, with at least 108,000 children. The most affected states are Kassala,
South Darfur, Al Gezira, Sennar, West Kordofan, Gedaref, South Kordofan and White Nile.
• A country-wide community-based mass Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) screening for acute malnutrition began at the end of August. The screening will improve case finding and referral of acute malnourished children. Nutrition supplies have been released from the port and on the way to the relevant states.
• In response to a measles outbreak in Alleit and Altweisha localities in North Darfur, UNICEF immunized 1,545 refugees with measles vaccines.
• Across Sudan, 55,482 children (27,962 boys, 27,520 girls) received psychosocial support (PSS), with 4,366 children (2,373 girls, 1,993 boys) receiving support for the first time in August.
• UNICEF and partners increased access to quality basic education for 6,703 children (2,924 girls, 3,779 boys) through the provision of 25 integrated education and child-friendly learning spaces in North Darfur and White Nile states. This represents a 57 per cent increase in constructed education spaces this month.
The UNICEF Sudan humanitarian appeal for 2016 has 57 per cent gap. The Child Protection sector is most underfunded (74 per cent gap). Over US$1 million is urgently needed for nutrition supplies to respond to an anticipated increase in SAM cases following the mass screening campaign. Close to US$400,000 is urgently needed for our flood response in White Nile, Kassala and the Red Sea states.
SITUATION IN NUMBERS
2. 6 million children out of 4.4 million people # of people affected (Source: Humanitarian Action for Children 2016)
1.2 million children out of 1.98 million people # of people displaced in Darfur (Source: Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview 2016)
168,683 children out of 240,975 people # of South Sudanese Refugees since outbreak of conflict on 15 December 2013 (Source: UNHCR Information Sharing Portal, 16 August 2016. 66% of refugees from South Sudan are children, this increased to 70% for those living in the camps)
UNICEF Appeal 2016
US$117 million
Situation Overview and Humanitarian Needs
Since early June, more than 200,000 people are estimated to have been affected by heavy rains and flooding, with at least 108,000 children. The most heavily affected states are Kassala, South Darfur, Al Gezira, Sennar, West Kordofan, Gedaref, South Kordofan and White Nile. Kassala state is worst affected with some 6,000 houses destroyed and some 6,500 children currently missing out on education due to the partial or complete destruction of their schools.
Up to 200,000 people have been displaced in Darfur alone this year, of which 120,000 are estimated to be children. Meanwhile, arrivals of South Sudanese refugees in 2016 had already reached the 90,000 as of 16 August 2016. This represents 37 per cent of all arrivals since 2013, with Sudan being the largest host state of South Sudanese refugees.
Admissions for treatment of malnutrition in West Darfur were almost 50 per cent higher4 in June and July this year than the same period last year. Between January and July 2016, 5,525 cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have been reported by nutrition centres in the state. Case rates are likely to be even higher when taking into account in the absence of nutrition centres in some localities of the state and the decreasing numbers of centres in 2016, compared to 2015, partially due to phasing out centres by some organizations due to funding constraints.
In Sortony, some cases of suspected Acute Jaundice Syndrome continue to be reported amongst the population of 21,000 IDPs displaced by conflict in Jebel Marra earlier this year. Confirmation on the cases and numbers of displaced people affected are not yet released.
In Blue Nile State, there has been an increase in malaria case rates with the records for July showing a 45 per cent increase when compared with those recorded in the same period last year. This is likely due to an increase in stagnant water following the rains (which increases sites in which mosquitoes can breed) and is impacting an already unfavourable health situation in the state. SAM reported cases have been increased in the state by 105 per cent in a month period between May and June, amongst children under five.