{"id":176404,"date":"2018-05-02T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/south-darfur-s-kafia-kingi-market-to-relocate-to-decrease-fire-hazard\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:59:00","slug":"south-darfur-s-kafia-kingi-market-to-relocate-to-decrease-fire-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/south-darfur-s-kafia-kingi-market-to-relocate-to-decrease-fire-hazard","title":{"rendered":"South Darfur’s Kafia Kingi market to relocate to decrease fire hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The security committee of El Radoom locality in South Darfur has decided to relocate one of the state’s largest markets to decrease the risk of fires.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kafia Kingi market has suffered repeated smaller fires in the past, however, the security committee’s decision came after a huge fire destroyed more than 800 shops in the market and burned 200 adjacent houses in the locality districts.<\/p>\n

The locality Commissioner Adam Ishag said that the recurrence of frequent fires in the locality has become a great threat to security and explained that the last fire had caused material losses exceeding SDG 170 million (*$6.03 million).<\/p>\n

The market will be moved to a new locality and ‘properly planned to minimise the risk of fires’.<\/p>\n

Recently, camps for the displaced in Kalma<\/a>, Gireida<\/a>, and El Salam<\/a> have witnessed similar fires that have destroyed hundreds of houses.<\/p>\n

Large fires are reported in Darfur in this time of year, when the wind easily spreads flames – for example from cooking fires – through the dry grass and rooves. A shortage of fire-fighting equipment exacerbates the damage.<\/p>\n

* Based on the indicative US Dollar rate quoted by the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n