HIGHLIGHTS
• Fighting between Government forces and the SPLM-N in South Kordofan continues to affect civilians, with more people displaced and civilian structures hit in SPLM-N areas, according to aid organisations.
• FEWS NET forecasts that 40 per cent of IDPs and host communities in SPLM-N areas of South Kordofan will face emergency levels of food insecurity through September 2014.
• UNHCR reports that it has been decided to relocate 30,000 South Sudanese refugees from Kilo 10 reception site in White Nile to five alternative sites.
• UH RC/HC says sharp increase in humanitarian needs in Sudan requires increase in funding to meet the needs of vulnerable people
FIGURES
IDPs in Darfur –
in 2013 2 million
in 2014 (to date) 322,000
Refugees in Sudan (UNHCR) 157,000
Sudanese refugees in Chad (UNHCR) 353,000
Sudanese refugees in South Sudan & Ethiopia (UNHCR) 250,000
Civilians affected by fighting in South Kordofan
Reports received from the South Kordofan and Blue Nile Coordination Unit (SKBNCU), a coalition of international aid agencies and local community-based organisations operating in areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile controlled by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), indicate that fighting between the SPLM-N and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its paramilitary forces continued to affect civilians.
SKBNCU reports that over the past week 59 bombs were dropped in the immediate vicinity of Kauda town, a major town controlled by the SPLM-N. While no civilian casualties were reported, the aerial bombings hit a number of civilian structures, including an office of a local aid organisation, a market, an orphans’ school, and a former hospital
