The rainy season is increasing the suffering of about 60,000 newly displaced people in Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur.<\/p>\n
One of the leaders of the newly displaced at the camp Osman Abdulrahman Abu Al Gasim told Radio Dabanga that the displaced are distributed across three centres. \u201cCentre One accommodates 3,600, Centre Eight accommodates about 40,000, with 17,000 settled at Centre Five,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe heavy rains have deepened the difficulty of their humanitarian condition, so there are severe shortages of food, shelter and a deterioration of health services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been widespread criticism of the humanitarian organizations operating here,\u201d he said, describing their work as \u201csuperficial\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey provide no service or aid other than just registering names on papers,\u201d Al Gasim lamented, appealing to international humanitarian organisations to provide \u201creal humanitarian aid; both the old and the new displaced are dependent on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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