More than 4,500 homeless children in South Darfur capital

23/06/2014 13:01

Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, hosts more than 4,500 homeless children. The majority are of school-going age, the Governor of South Darfur State, Gen. Adam Mahmoud Jarelnabi, said at a press conference in Nyala on Saturday. South Darfur State’s Minister of Social Affairs, Marufa Abulgasim Mukhtar stated that the conditions in war-torn Darfur, “in particular in South Darfur, have produced a generation that is addicted to drugs”. Nyala is the second-largest city in Sudan, after Khartoum. Estimates of Nyala’s population vary widely.  According to a 2011 urban case study of the south Darfur capital, the Sudanese Ministry of Physical Planning and Public Utilities quoted a figure of 1.3 million people for South Darfur’s capital. File photo: Newly displaced children in Kalma camp, Nyala locality in South Darfur, 9 March 2014. (Albert González Farran/Unamid)  Related: ‘Displacement is becoming a children’s crisis in Sudan’: Unicef (2 April 2014)

Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, hosts more than 4,500 homeless children.

The majority are of school-going age, the Governor of South Darfur State, Gen. Adam Mahmoud Jarelnabi, said at a press conference in Nyala on Saturday.

South Darfur State’s Minister of Social Affairs, Marufa Abulgasim Mukhtar stated that the conditions in war-torn Darfur, “in particular in South Darfur, have produced a generation that is addicted to drugs”.

Nyala is the second-largest city in Sudan, after Khartoum. Estimates of Nyala’s population vary widely.  According to a 2011 urban case study of the south Darfur capital, the Sudanese Ministry of Physical Planning and Public Utilities quoted a figure of 1.3 million people for South Darfur’s capital.

File photo: Newly displaced children in Kalma camp, Nyala locality in South Darfur, 9 March 2014. (Albert González Farran/Unamid) 

Related: ‘Displacement is becoming a children’s crisis in Sudan’: Unicef (2 April 2014)