{"id":20073252,"date":"2024-02-20T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20073252"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:32:49","slug":"healthcare-good-but-food-scarcity-reported-in-south-kordofan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/healthcare-good-but-food-scarcity-reported-in-south-kordofan-capital","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare good but food scarcity reported in South Kordofan capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city of Kadugli in South Kordofan is witnessing a severe scarcity of sorghum, the main food source for the population. The prices of basic commodities are increasing.<\/strong> The healthcare in the city is “going well”. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is hardly any sorghum available at the city’s markets and neighbouring areas,\u201d a listener reported Dabanga from Kadugli yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBasic commodities are fairly available in the markets, but prices are high and are steadily increasing,\u201d he added. \u201cAs for mobile phones, the prices doubled. We now pay SDG90,000* to SDG120,000 for a telephone, instead of SDG50,000 a month ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pointed out that most of the goods come from South Sudan through the El Na\u2019aam Market at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area of Dalami, northeast of Kadugli, is also experiencing a severe shortage of sorghum<\/a>, journalist Abdelrahim Kunda told Dabanga earlier this month. The market is reportedly \u201cdevoid of anything for sale.\u201d A large number of the town\u2019s residents complained that they had been without food for two days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The harvest of sorghum in Dalami was extremely poor last year due to the lack of rain, the destruction of crops by locusts and birds, delayed agricultural funding, and the \u201csheer unpredictable security situation,\u201d said Kunda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September last year, Dabanga reported that merchants at the markets of South Kordofan resorted to barter trade<\/a> and South Sudanese currency, because of the persisting liquidity crisis in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aid provision<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the many displaced sheltering in the city, the source explained that humanitarian organisations replaced the in-kind assistance they used to provide to them with cash assistance in October last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe monthly amount provided to one person is about SDG75,000,\u201d he said, and explained that cash amounts were initially distributed to those who had fled war zones in West and North Kordofan, and Khartoum. \u201cThe distribution now covers large segments of society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healthcare in the city is “going well”, he added. \u201cThe intervention of health organisations is great. The UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) is also helping out. The latest convoy with medical aid arrived in November. Most of the medicines are currently provided by the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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* The middle rate of the US Dollar at the Faisal Islamic Bank yesterday amounted to SDG1,144<\/a>. The greenback was selling for SDG1,200<\/a> at the parallel market on February 5.<\/em><\/p>\n