Sudan's Red Crescent Society has distributed food and household supplies to people whose homes were reportedly destroyed in fighting in Habila town in South Kordofan State.

Thousands of people fled Habila following an attack on the town by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N) on 28 March. Some of them fled to Dilling and Samasim towns while others hid in nearby areas and returned to Habila town on the same day, after the situation had calmed.

Local authorities cited in a report by the UN coordination office in Sudan said that over 360 homes were destroyed during the fighting, leaving 2,240 homeless. “The town’s market was looted during the attack, the town’s generator was damaged, one school was burnt down,” reads the UN report.

In response, the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) last week distributed 20 metric tons of WFP-supplied sorghum to the 2,240 people whose homes were allegedly destroyed during the attack.

“These people also received emergency household supplies (plastic sheets, sleeping mats, jerry cans, kitchen kits, blankets and mosquito nets) from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and SRCS. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) provided 100 hygiene kits to the most vulnerable women in the town, distributed by the national NGO Mubadiroon,” UN reported.