Sudanese displaced people living south of Kurmuk at Mik, Daka and Yabus camps in Blue Nile State are reportedly experiencing a shortage of food and essential services.
Al-Samawi Adlan, a food security officer in the Blue Nile refugee camps confirmed to Radio Tamazuj that hundreds of households are affected by the lack of food.
Adlan also requested that humanitarian organizations to provide food for the Blue Nile refugees. He attributes the problem to a worsening security situation and little rains as well as absence of organizations operating in the humanitarian field in those areas.
“I call on the organizations to provide food and medicine to the starving refugees. In case the current situation in the camps remain as it is, there will be a crisis” Al-Samawi explained.