Nyala camps in South Darfur now host nearly 68,000 new families

The number of people who have fled about 40 villages to the Nyala camps in South Darfur between 1 January and 1 June this year has swollen to 67,918 families. The people are enduring inhuman living conditions in camps such as Thukla, Attash and El Salam, spokesman for the association of displaced persons and refugees of Darfur, Hussein Abu Sharati, told Radio Dabanga. “The statistics adopted by the association and the organisations for the number of newly displaced show 50,982 families in camp Kalma, 9,032 families in El Salam, Thukla hosts 4,804 families and camp Attash, 5,100 families. “Most of them came from 40 villages including areas of Labado, Muhajeriya, Umm Gonja and Abu Deleg,” he explained, “and there is continuous influx of the newly displaced persons from various unstable regions of South Darfur to Nyala camps.”Abu Sharati described the conditions of the newly displaced, especially children and pregnant women as “tragic”, confirming to Radio Dabanga that they lack food and shelter or any protection from the elements.He appealed via Radio Dabanga to the international organisations to take immediate action by urgently providing shelter, plastic sheets, food, medical care and treatment, toilets and environmental sanitation. File photo Related: Camps’ resources stretched even further in Nyala, South Darfur (30 May 2013) Looming rainy season threat of ‘disaster’ at Nyala camps, South Darfur (28 May 2013)