Over 30,000 Sudanese conflict-displaced people are running low on food in El Shairiya in Sudan’s East Darfur state.
Several displaced persons told Radio Tamazuj Thursday that they were experiencing severe food shortages for nearly three months.
“Humanitarian organizations distributed food rations in June but it was inadequate for the displaced people,” one person said.
They further said that roads connecting El Shairiya with Ad Daein were cut off by heavy rains.
The displaced families also expressed concern about insecurity, saying so-called Janjaweed militia had deployed in neighboring areas following tribal clashes between the Rizeigat and Maalia Arab tribes in the area.
A source working with the UNAMID mission in the area told Radio Tamazuj that the World Food Program (WPF) held a meeting with the local authorities to get permission to distribute food.
In April 2013, El Shairiya witnessed deadly clashes between Darfuri armed movements and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its allied militias, causing displacement of thousands of civilians during the time of governor Abdel Hamid Musa Kasha.
File photo: A man stands outside a tent in Shegerab refugee camp in Kassala State, eastern Sudan on 10 Feburary 2010 (Ashraf Shazly/AFP)
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