WFP to reduce food rations in Central Darfur camps

31/08/2014 12:54

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will reduce the food rations for the population of the camps for the displaced in Wadi Salih locality in Central Darfur. A camp sheikh informed Radio Dabanga from Garsila camp that the monthly food rations provided by the WFP will be reduced from eight 100kg sacks of sorghum for every fifty displaced to six sacks. “They decided to reduce the food rations at a time in which the prices of food ate skyrocketing at the markets. A 100kg sack of millet now costs SDG500 ($87), a bottle of cooking oil SDG30 ($5.20), and a ratul (450 grams) of dried okra SDG40 ($7).” File photo: A WFP store in Darfur Related:Dispute halts food distribution to Central Darfur camp (26 August 2014)WFP, UNHCR appeal for urgent extra funding (2 July 2014)Reduced WFP rations for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad (20 May 2014)

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will reduce the food rations for the population of the camps for the displaced in Wadi Salih locality in Central Darfur.

A camp sheikh informed Radio Dabanga from Garsila camp that the monthly food rations provided by the WFP will be reduced from eight 100kg sacks of sorghum for every fifty displaced to six sacks.

“They decided to reduce the food rations at a time in which the prices of food ate skyrocketing at the markets. A 100kg sack of millet now costs SDG500 ($87), a bottle of cooking oil SDG30 ($5.20), and a ratul (450 grams) of dried okra SDG40 ($7).”

File photo: A WFP store in Darfur

Related:

Dispute halts food distribution to Central Darfur camp (26 August 2014)

WFP, UNHCR appeal for urgent extra funding (2 July 2014)

Reduced WFP rations for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad (20 May 2014)