US Agency for International Development
Sudan: Darfur - Humanitarian Emergency
Fact Sheet #9 (FY 2005)
26 November 2004


Note: This report updates fact sheet #8, dated November 19, 2004.

DARFUR EMERGENCY - NUMBERS AT A GLANCE    SOURCE

Conflict-Affected Persons in
Darfur and Eastern Chad More than 2 million people   U.S. Government,
European Union, and United Nations

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
in Darfur   1.6 million people      U.N. Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Sudanese Refugees in Eastern
Chad  200,000 people    U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)


Conflict-Affected Persons in
Darfur Receiving Food Assistance    1.16 million people during October
1.8 million people targeted for November    U.N. World Food Program (WFP)


Crude Mortality Rates (CMR) (1) and
Under-five Mortality Rates
(U5MR) (2) for Darfur      North Darfur - 1.5 CMR; 2.5 U5MR
West Darfur - 2.9 CMR; 3.1 U5MR
Kalma Camp (South Darfur) - 3.8
CMR; 11.7 U5MR    Preliminary data from the U.N. World Health Organization
   (WHO)

Total FY 2004 -- 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance to Darfur:
$290,501,434
Total FY 2004 -- 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance to Eastern Chad:
$75,672,072
Total FY 2004 -- 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance for the Darfur 
Emergency: $366,173,506
Total FY 2003 -- 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance for the Darfur 
Emergency: $368,245,080



CURRENT HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

Security

According to USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART), on 
November 21, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) attacks on a police 
station in Tawilah town, North Darfur, resulted in the deaths of 14 police 
officers and the capture of 9 vehicles. On November 23, international 
media sources reported that the Government of Sudan (GOS) responded with 
air strikes on Tawilah. As a result of increasing insecurity, nearly all 
national and international humanitarian aid personnel in the area have 
evacuated to El Fasher, leaving thousands of IDPs in North Darfur without 
access to humanitarian assistance.

The USAID/DART reported that SLM/A forces, possibly based within the camp, 
attacked the police station in the Kalma IDP camp in South Darfur on 
November 21. The ensuing gun battle killed five police officers, as well 
as three SLM/A combatants. During the evening of November 23, GOS forces 
began house-to-house "search and cordon" operations in the Kalma camp to 
look for weapons and SLM/A combatants. In addition, several international 
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reported that GOS police entered 
their clinics forcibly to search for wounded men who might be connected to 
the SLM/A. Although some NGOs resumed work in the camp, the U.N. Security 
Coordinator (UNSECOORD) declared Kalma a "no go" area for U.N. agencies.

Although West Darfur is generally the least restricted in terms of 
movement, the Kulbus corridor north of Geneina remains a primary 
flashpoint. In addition, WFP reports raiding and looting by the Jingaweit 
against African villages, as well as by African Zaghawa tribesmen against 
Arab villages, and by units of the National Movement for Reform and 
Development, (NMRD), a newly emerged opposition group that appears to have 
recently split from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).


Protection

On November 23, UNHCR announced that the GOS has approved the initiation 
of protection activities in North Darfur and authorized the resumption of 
the refugee agency's protection work in South Darfur. On November 11, 
three of four UNHCR personnel had temporarily relocated to West Darfur as 
a result of GOS restrictions on protection activities in IDP settlements 
in South Darfur. According to UNHCR, the GOS also removed some security 
restrictions in West Darfur, allowing UNHCR teams to resume regular field 
missions to villages and IDP settlements, particularly near the border 
with Chad.


Food Assistance

On November 22, WFP reported the first transport of USG food assistance 
through Libya, along a humanitarian corridor across the Sahara desert, to 
reach 200,000 Darfurian refugees in eastern Chad. According to WFP, more 
than 6,500 metric tons of sorghum, cornmeal, lentils, vegetable oil, and 
corn soya blend arrived in Benghazi port in early November and were 
transported 2,800 km by trucks to Chad. The corridor through Libya is a 
vital link, allowing WFP to increase the amount of food deliveries to 
Chad. The deteriorating security situation in Darfur continues to hamper 
WFP food deliveries. To date, WFP has met only 37 percent of November food 
and beneficiary targets, representing the second consecutive month that 
WFP has fallen short of targets, primarily due to insecurity. Currently, 
12,568 metric tons (MT) of total food commodities are stockpiled, with 
some warehouses filling up because onward dispatches cannot be made. The 
situation is most critical in North Darfur where WFP warehouses are 
approaching capacity and additional storage space is needed. UNSECOORD has 
closed all roads out of El Fasher to U.N. personnel, leaving approximately 
300,000 IDPs cut off from WFP food assistance.


International Assistance

>From November 18 to 19, the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) held the
second-ever meeting in Africa in Nairobi (and the fourth-ever meeting 
outside of New York), under the leadership of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. 
John Danforth. The purpose of the session was to galvanize negotiations to 
end the conflict between the GOS and SPLM/A in Southern Sudan. GOS and 
SPLM/A negotiations are scheduled to resume on November 26 and the 
international humanitarian community is hopeful that dividends of a 
North/South peace agreement will extend to Eastern Sudan and Darfur.

>From November 18 to 20, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and
Agriculture Tony Hall toured Darfur to assess the impact of the conflict 
and review current relief efforts.

The expansion of the African Union (AU) mission in Darfur is underway with 
additional military observers arriving weekly. According to the U.S. 
Department of State, planned deployments will increase the number of AU 
personnel on the ground in Darfur from the current level of 784 to 3,320 
by early January 2005.

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