Sudan - OFDA-01: 06-Nov-98
Sudan - OFDA-01: 06-Nov-98
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
SUDAN - Complex Emergency
Situation Report #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 November 6, 1998
Note: The last situation report was dated July 13, 1998.
BACKGROUND
Fighting began in 1983 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan
People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) when the southern opposition
movement demanded more influence in the government and protested GOS
efforts to impose Islamic laws on the Christian and animist south. In
1991, intensified fighting erupted between SPLA factions in areas of the
south. The conflict continues today and civilians throughout the south
and the transitional zone (i.e. southern Darfur, southern Kordofan, and
southern Blue Nile area) are directly affected by GOS aerial bombings and
forced relocations due to fighting. The ongoing insecurity and population
displacement has not only interrupted or destroyed most of the indigenous
trading and productive systems, but has also been a major impediment to
relief efforts. The United Nations (U.N.) and numerous non-governmental
organizations (NGO) within and outside the framework of Operation Lifeline
Sudan (OLS) are delivering relief assistance by airlifts, airdrops,
barges, trains, and truck convoys. In more secure areas of southern
Sudan, efforts are underway to use local agricultural surpluses for
distribution in the hunger zones.
AFFECTED AT A GLANCE:
Figures listed are U.N. Humanitarian Coordination Unit (UNHCU) and U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates. Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs): 4 million, including 2.2 million in Khartoum and 1.8
million in the transitional zone and southern areas. Refugees: 175,000
Sudanese refugees in Uganda, 80,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(formerly Zaire), 58,507 in Ethiopia, 32,000 in Kenya, and 35,500 in the
Central African Republic. 311,400 Eritreans, 59,800 Ethiopians, and
18,900 refugees of various origins currently in Sudan.
Total U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) Assistance for FY1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . $109,889,888
SITUATION UPDATE
- Cease-fire Continues in Bahr el Ghazal.
In Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes Region, the GOS and SPLA continue to uphold the
humanitarian cease-fire brokered by the British government and Kenyan
President Daniel arap Moi on July 15. In October, the SPLA and GOS
extended the cease-fire in the same region for an additional three months,
until January 15, 1999. The two sides failed to reach agreement on the
core issues during Inter-governmental Authority on Development
(IGAD)-sponsored talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in early August. From
July to October, the U.N. Development Program hosted talks in Italy,
Germany, and Poland between the GOS and SPLM on governance and
confidence-building steps. A humanitarian technical committee meeting to
include the GOS, SPLM, OLS, and IGAD was planned in October but was
canceled. The Egyptian government hosted a meeting of Sudanese opposition
groups in Cairo, Egypt in early August.
Fighting has resumed in areas not covered by the cease-fire in recent
weeks. The most intense fighting is in the vicinity of Torit, a
GOS-controlled town located near Juba, the southern capital and the
ultimate target for the SPLA. The GOS now controls the road between Juba
and Torit and has re-captured Liria town and neighboring garrisons from
SPLA forces. According to a recent UNICEF report, there are some 3,700
moderately malnourished children under five years of age in Juba. An
outbreak of diarrhea linked to contaminated water caused at least 29
deaths in Juba during September and October, the report added. UNICEF is
assisting some 177 children displaced by fighting in the Liria area.
The latest SPLA campaign, which began in mid-September, has affected more
than 52,000 Sudanese and caused hundreds of casualties. The GOS has
accused Uganda, with backing from Eritrea and Rwanda, of spearheading the
SPLA offensive and recently declared a general mobilization. Fighting
also continues between the GOS and opposition groups in other areas,
including the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile Province, and Unity State, as well
as among pro-GOS southern Sudanese factions in western Upper Nile Region.
- Malnutrition Rates on the Decline.
Currently, donors are targeting more than 2.6 million people in Sudan,
including 1.2 million in opposition-held areas in southern Sudan and 1.4
million in GOS-held areas of southern Sudan and the transitional zone, as
well as northern Sudan, facing hunger due to intensified fighting,
restricted access, drought, flooding, and difficulties associated with the
distribution of relief assistance. The most serious needs are in Bahr el
Ghazal/Lakes Region, where the cumulative impact of conflict and drought
continue to affect more than 700,000 people, including many returnees and
people displaced by the SPLA attack on Wau and Aweil towns in late
January.
Ongoing insecurity, combined with flooding, various logistical constraints
and fuel shortages, continue to hamper humanitarian efforts to respond to
the crisis. Despite these obstacles, malnutrition rates have stabilized
in many famine-hit areas, largely due to donor-funded efforts. The flow
of severely malnourished people into feeding centers in GOS-controlled Wau
town has decreased significantly since late September, and the number of
beneficiaries in the town now stands at 72,377, including 22,000 children
under five. In August, the malnutrition rate in Wau was as high as 43.2%
with 19.2% severely malnourished, and between July and August, 1,324
deaths were recorded, with mortality rates higher among IDPs. There are
24 donor-supported feeding centers in Wau, serving some 5,800 people. In
Ajiep, northern Bahr el Ghazal, hunger-related deaths have fallen from 60
per 10,000 per day in mid-July, to 3.6 per 10,000 per day in late
September. Ajiep, the epicenter of the famine, had a caseload of 48,162
beneficiaries in late September.
The improvement in nutritional conditions in these areas is mainly due to
OLS's increased food deliveries. In August, the U.N. World Food Program
(WFP) nearly doubled its monthly food deliveries to southern Sudan,
reaching 16,429 metric tons (MT) in OLS/Southern and OLS/Northern Sector
locations. Of this total, more than 11,783 MT (72%) was delivered by air
from air bases in Khartoum and El Obeid in Sudan; Lokichokio and Nairobi,
Kenya; 3,697 MT by road from Koboko, Uganda; and 949 MT by barge. During
the month of August, WFP assistance reached approximately 1.8 million
beneficiaries, including approximately 1.1 million in Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes
Region, in 105 locations. (WFP has been unable to provide relief food to
more than 200,000 vulnerable people in western Upper Nile due to fighting
among pro-GOS factions.) In September, 14,292 MT were delivered in both
northern and southern locations. Over 75% was delivered by air, 20% by
road, and 4% by barge.
OLS has expanded its aircraft fleet to 19 (8 C-130s, 2 C-160s, 4 Illyushin
76s, and 5 Buffalos) to provide assistance in Sudan. OLS is also
utilizing two commercial Antonovs and three Caravan planes to move
supplies and personnel. Airlifts from Khartoum and El Obeid to northern
and southern locations are operating normally, with no significant
interference from the GOS. WFP has established a base in southern Bahr el
Ghazal and drastically reduced staff travel time and residence in
Lokichokio. WFP has also increased southern sector field staff to 66.
WFP and the SPLA, as well as UNICEF and NGOs, are actively implementing
specific measures to ensure that vulnerable people receive food aid as
intended based on the recommendations of the joint SPLM/SRRA-OLS task
force report released in August.
Additionally, UNICEF and NGOs have expanded the number of feeding centers
providing assistance in Sudan. OLS is supporting a total of 45
supplementary and 16 therapeutic feeding centers in Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes
Region. In August, these programs reached over 41,000 children. UNICEF
and NGOs have established feeding center protocols in order to standardize
entry/discharge criteria, type of assistance provided, and data collection
among the 17 agencies managing feeding centers in Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes
Region. It is anticipated that nutritional feeding activities will drop
between now and February 1999, but increase again during the traditional
"hunger gap" from March to the September harvest.
Thus far, donors have provided $150 million to WFP's emergency operations
plan (EMOP) in Sudan from May 1998 to April 1999, out of a total
requirement of $154 million. WFP is seeking an additional $11.3 million
to improve the Lokichokio road and airport, repair roads in Eastern and
Western Equatoria, and support a WFP-managed trucking fleet. WFP expects
to support a barge rehabilitation program in Khartoum and plans to
purchase engines for barge pushers as well as barge equipment such as
boats and communication equipment. Despite an extensive delay due to
heavy rains, the second Juba barge convoy delivered food to more than
200,000 beneficiaries along the Kosti-Juba corridor in July and August.
A WFP barge convoy is presently distributing food to 108,320 beneficiaries
along the Sobat River corridor. The three-barge convoy departed Kosti on
October 1 and is scheduled to arrive at Nyandit near the Ethiopian border
at the end of October. The WFP relief convoy, the first to deliver food
along the Sobat corridor this year, was delayed due to lack of barges and
clearance delays. On October 19, a Bentiu barge convoy carrying food for
17,039 beneficiaries departed Malakal. Recently, WFP also delivered 30 MT
of food by train from Babanusa to Meiram, West Kordofan. A WFP technical
mission is assessing priority needs for the Sudan Railway Corporation to
resume rail transport from Wass to Babanusa.
WFP will submit a new EMOP following the recommendations of the joint U.N.
Food and Agriculture Organization/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment
mission, which is expected to take place in November 1998. OLS's Northern
and Southern Sector are currently involved in collecting and analyzing
data for the WFP/OLS Annual Needs Assessment. The assessment's results
will be distributed to donors in late November and will be the basis for
the U.N. Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal, which will be issued in January
by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
According to a USAID/Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) report issued on
September 29, extreme food insecurity persists in some areas, although
food aid deliveries and incoming harvests have improved food availability.
FEWS estimates harvests will be poor particularly in northern Bahr el
Ghazal and parts of Lakes and Jonglei regions, due to poor rains, late
access to seeds and tools, flooding, and armed conflict. Most of Western
Equatoria is food secure with significant food surpluses. WFP expects to
continue food distributions through the August/September 1999 harvest.
In a recent report to the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi
Annan urged warring parties and donor governments in Sudan to work
together to ensure that the current high levels of humanitarian access are
maintained to avert the deaths of innocent victims. In the report, Mr.
Annan highlighted the need for continued assistance to OLS relief
operations, given poor 1998 harvest projections. OLS is urging the GOS
and SPLA to extend the cease-fire and broaden it in scope. The cease-fire
has allowed the OLS to complete a measles vaccination (and Vitamin A
distribution) campaign in Bahr el Ghazal. Over 54,000 children were
vaccinated, compared to previous levels of 4,000-8,500 vaccinations per
year under OLS in the same region.
On October 26, senior officials from Oxfam, Save the Children Fund, CARE
International and Doctors Without Borders urged the United Nations to
renew efforts to end the 30-year civil war during a meeting with the U.N.
Security Council (UNSC). In the meeting, the aid groups asked the United
Nations to persuade the GOS and SPLA to extend the cease-fire to all of
southern Sudan and maintain it throughout next year. The four aid groups
also emphasized that continued fighting has cut off road, rail and river
supply routes that the OLS had originally planned to use in carrying out
relief operations. Oxfam's representatives also met with U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the aid groups lobbied other senior U.N.
officials as well as the representatives of the countries scheduled to
join the Security Council next year as rotating members. On October 27,
the United Nations announced that Kieran Prendergast,
undersecretary-general for political affairs, will visit Sudan and other
countries in the region in November in an effort to revive peace efforts.
In early November, Catholic Relief Services echoed the view of the NGOs
and urged the international community to press harder for a negotiated
settlement to the war. The October 26 meeting was only the second time
the UNSC panel had agreed to meet with private aid organizations.
- USG Expands Assistance in Bahr el Ghazal.
USAID is aggressively and pro-actively responding to the humanitarian
crisis in Sudan in tandem with other donors. USAID provided over $109
million in FY 1998, including a BHR/OFDA contribution of approximately $39
million in grants to support OLS and various relief and rehabilitation
interventions, including flood response, in affected areas. Of this
amount, BHR/OFDA provided approximately $10 million to assist victims of
the war and drought in Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes Region. BHR/OFDA continues to
support OLS airlift operations and a road rehabilitation program in
southern Sudan, with more assistance expected soon. BHR/Office of Food
for Peace (FFP) also provided approximately $33 million to support WFP
operations in southern Sudan, primarily in Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes Region, in
FY 1998. So far in FY 1999, BHR/FFP has provided 24,630 MT of Public Law
(PL) 480 Title II food valued at $23.8 million to various NGOs for
distribution in southern Sudan. In August, U.S. President Bill Clinton
announced a donation of 2.5 million MT of U.S. surplus wheat to WFP to
benefit Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Korea, and Indonesia.
In anticipation of future access denials by the GOS, USAID has increased
assistance to non-OLS NGOs working in areas outside the control of the
government. Recently, USAID also assigned Richard McCall, USAID Chief of
Staff, as the humanitarian coordinator for Sudan to work with other donors
in order to ensure increased, regular access. In August, a USAID mission
led by BHR/OFDA Director Roy Williams visited El Obeid, Wau, Ajiep, and
Lokichokio. Based on the mission's findings, BHR/OFDA dispatched plastic
sheeting for 18,000 families in Wau and Khartoum. BHR/OFDA also
contracted two C-130s to operate out of Khartoum to deliver relief
commodities, including supplementary food, in support of NGO emergency
interventions.
In September, USAID/Bureau for Africa (AFR) initiated the Sudan Transition
Assistance for Rehabilitation (STAR) program, which intends to strengthen
grassroots Sudanese organizations in opposition-held areas and provide
governance training to local and opposition officials. USAID/AFR is
currently working with UNICEF and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in
implementing this program, which mainly aims to increase participation of
civilians in local administration, including the management of
humanitarian assistance. Total planned funding for the program is $7
million over three years, $3 million of which was obligated in FY 1998.
USAID's expanded efforts in Sudan directly support the goals of U.S.
Senate Resolution 267 adapted in late July by integrating
preventive/mitigative efforts and promoting peace, self-sufficiency, and
democracy. In late July, the U.S. Congress House Committee on
International Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Human
Rights and the Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing on the crisis in
Sudan and northern Uganda. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs Susan E. Rice addressed the hearing. In October, the USG welcomed
the extension of the cease-fire, but urged the GOS and opposition groups
to end the civil war.
- Severe Floods Hit Sudan.
One million Sudanese remain affected by the worst flooding seen in 20
years. Among the affected areas are Northern, River Nile, White Nile,
Gedaref, and Sennar states in northern and eastern Sudan. The floods have
caused more than 25 deaths, displaced more than 100,000 people, and
completely destroyed 500 villages along the Nile River. In early August,
about 20 people were killed and 5,000 families were made homeless after
floods swept through villages in Southern and Northern Darfur. In
mid-October, 63 people were killed by floods in Sodari province, North
Kordofan state. As the water levels recede, the water and sanitation
situation is reportedly deteriorating in flood-affected areas, with
alarming increases in malaria, diarrhea and other diseases already
reported in some areas. Lack of shelter and poor food security conditions
are concerns. Floods have destroyed bridge and rail links from Port
Sudan, hindering the delivery of fuel for the OLS aircraft in Khartoum.
Severe flooding has also displaced populations and hampered relief
operations in southern Sudan, particularly in Bor County, Upper
Nile/Jonglei, where the White Nile River has reached historic levels.
Approximately 80% of Bor county is flooded and an estimated 180,000 people
are affected. The flooding has destroyed crops and infrastructure in the
area and caused loss of livestock and personal property. Unusually heavy
and late rains have interfered with food airdrops and deployment of field
staff in Ajiep and Rumbek, Bahr el Ghazal/Lakes. Bad weather and poor
roads have affected relief efforts in Juba County, where about 2,000
people are flood-affected. Conversely, the rains have improved pasture
and livestock conditions in many areas.
Various NGOs, international organizations, and U.N. agencies, as well as
donor governments, including several Arab countries, have responded to the
disaster. WFP is assisting flood-affected families in Bor County and
about 9,000 people in Kassala state who have lost their homes to floods to
floods since August. UNOCHA has deployed a staff member to Khartoum to
mobilize and coordinate international relief efforts. A consolidated U.N.
flood appeal for $8.98 million was issued on September 24, promoting
community self-reliance and focusing on prevention of water-borne diseases
and providing clean drinking water to flood-victims. On September 18,
U.S. Charge d'Affaires Donald G. Teitelbaum declared a disaster in Sudan
due to the floods. As requested in the declaration, BHR/OFDA subsequently
provided $25,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC) which issued a $2.1 million appeal on September
6 to assist 95,500 flood-affected people. The $25,000 will be used to
provide essential items such as blankets and tents. BHR/OFDA also
allotted $39,014 to CARE to provide basic relief supplies and shelter
materials to flood-affected families in Nile State. In addition, CARE
used a portion of BHR/OFDA-provided relief supplies, including plastic
sheeting, blankets, and water jugs, that were originally intended for the
war-displaced in Khartoum to meet the immediate needs of the
flood-affected. An ongoing BHR/OFDA-funded CARE program to support health
and water/sanitation activities also incorporated flood preparedness
activities in IDP camps in Khartoum.
- Insecurity for Relief Workers and Operations, Bombings, and the U.S.
Embassy Attacked.
On November 3, OLS evacuated 42 non-essential staff from Yambio, Yei and
Maridi, Western Equatoria, following a series of recent thefts and attacks
on staff and aid vehicles by SPLA soldiers returning from Torit to Bahr el
Ghazal/Lakes Region. In the most recent incident, a truck transporting
WFP food was attacked and two passengers were seriously injured. Other
incidents include the looting of clinics in the Yambio area and the armed
robbery of seven passengers in a UNICEF vehicle north of Maridi. Twenty
other staff members remain to oversee essential programmes in the area.
On October 23, the GOS bombed the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA)-run
hospital in Yei, Eastern Equatoria, for the sixth time in 1998. Three
civilians were killed and five were wounded during the hour-long attack,
in which seven bombs were launched. Six bombs fell outside the hospital,
but the seventh hit the center for handicraft close to the hospital, which
is supported by BHR/OFDA. In late September, one person was killed and 21
wounded during a similar attack on the hospital, which was damaged
seriously. In late October, a WFP convoy from Lokichokio was shot at
while traveling to Ikotos, Eastern Equatoria. One person was killed. In
September, the GOS dropped three bombs on IDP camps in Eastern Equatoria
(Ikotos and Lokutok), causing two deaths. The camp houses some 45,000
IDPs. The Eastern Equatoria locations of Ikotos and Lokutok were
reportedly bombed in late July. There are 120,000 IDPs in Equatoria.
In early October, a GOS plane dropped nine bombs on the northern Ugandan
towns of Pakele and Adjumani, injuring six people. Two of the bombs fell
near the WFP and UNHCR compounds, which hold more than 100,000 Sudanese
refugees. On October 15, three NPA employees were killed and two
passengers injured when their convoy was attacked and looted near the
Sudanese border in northern Uganda. The convoy was returning from an IDP
camp near Kajo Keji when it was attacked. The attackers are believed to
be from the rebel West Nile Bank Front, which is reportedly supported by
the GOS.
In early August, three people were killed in a GOS aerial bombardment of
several villages in the Nuba Mountains. Six civilians were also wounded
in the attack. Also in August, two IDPs were killed and others injured in
Kassala State during heavy shelling near the border. In late September,
the GOS bombed a refugee camp in the state, killing two children and
injuring twelve people. The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) estimates that there are at least 55,000 people displaced due to
insecurity along the Eritrean border. In recent weeks, pro-GOS factions
looted and burned NGO compounds in Mankien and Leer, Unity State. Around
25 international aid workers have been evacuated from the region.
On August 22, Sudanese protesters stormed the empty U.S. embassy compound
in Khartoum in protest of a U.S. missile attack on a pharmaceutical plant
in Khartoum. About 10,000 Sudanese participated in the protest of the air
strikes on the plant, which is suspected of producing chemical weapons.
The missile attacks followed the bombings on August 7 of two U.S.
embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which left a total of
257 dead, mostly Africans. NGOs and U.N. agencies continued their
emergency aid operations in spite of a strong possibility of retaliation
following the attack. The British government has withdrawn its ambassador
and other diplomats from Sudan at the request of the GOS.
In late August, Human Rights Watch released a report that accused the GOS
and the SPLA of gross violations of human rights and international
humanitarian law. Leonardo Franco, an Argentine human rights expert, has
replaced Gaspar Biro as U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan.
- Refugees and IDPs.
OLS is assisting 17,000 Sudanese in Yambio, Western Equatoria, who
recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC). An
additional 30,000 - 50,000 returnees are in the area of Dungu, DROC, and
1,000 people are crossing the border daily due to insecurity in the DROC.
Most of the returnees, who fled insecurity in Western Equatoria in 1990 -
1993, have been taken in by relatives in Yambio and Maridi. An OLS
mission is in Western Equatoria Region to assess the needs of IDPs from
Bahr el Ghazal and Sudanese refugees from the DROC.
An estimated 600 - 700 people displaced from the Nuba Mountains are now in
Kadugli, South Kordofan. Additional displaced from the Nuba Mountains
have moved on to Khartoum or other areas north of Kadugli. During the
month of August, 308 Sudanese refugees arrived in refugee camps in Western
Ethiopia.
NGOs have established a contingency plan for the displacement of around
40,000 people in SPLA-held areas in Torit County, where recent insecurity
has raised the possibility of increased humanitarian needs. Norwegian
Church Aid is the lead agency for contingency planning and assessment in
Torit County, while CRS is responsible for food aid in areas not served by
WFP. Approximately 75 percent of Torit county is considered food
insecure.
USG ASSISTANCE TO SUDAN
The USG has actively been providing humanitarian assistance to Sudan since
1988. On October 7, 1998, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell
re-issued the declaration of disaster for FY 1999 in Sudan due to the
continuing complex emergency. Currently, the USG's humanitarian response
to the emergency in Sudan is provided through BHR/OFDA, BHR/FFP, and the
State Department's Bureau for Population, Refugee, and Migration
(State/PRM).
BHR/OFDA and BHR/FFP staff in Washington continue to work with the
USAID/Regional Economic Development Services Offices/Sudan Field Office to
plan and monitor relief and rehabilitation activities in southern Sudan
and with USAID/Khartoum staff to monitor activities in northern Sudan and
GOS-controlled areas of the south. In January 1996, the United States
suspended its diplomatic presence in Khartoum, due to concerns for the
safety of American Embassy personnel in Sudan. Subsequently, a temporary
office was established in Nairobi to maintain regular diplomatic
communications with the GOS. After the bombings of the U.S. embassies in
Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam on August 7, 1998, American staff in
Embassy/Khartoum returned to their home bases in Cairo and Nairobi and
have not returned since.
- BHR/OFDA Assistance
BHR/OFDA supported the following activities in FY 1998:
Action contre la Faim (ACF) emergency health,
nutrition and water program in the Juba area $999,373
ACF therapeutic feeding program in Wau $816,256
ACROSS health program in south Bor $323,772
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
therapeutic feeding program for Khartoum IDPs $560,070
ADRA emergency food distribution in
the Khartoum area $1,217,796
ADRA veterinary health and primary health
project in Kajo Keji $520,000
Airlifts of relief supplies and other
operational costs $3,081,387
ARC health and water/sanitation program
in Kajo Keji $1,118,746
CARE basic primary health project in
Khartoum displaced camps $1,533,588
CARE emergency program in En Nahud $271,993
CARE emergency program in Unity State $64,071
CARE wet feeding and non-food assistance
in Wau $588,706
CARE food security program in Bor County $882,955
CARE sleeping sickness program in Tambura $331,431
CARE mission allotment for flood response $39,014
CARE relief program for IDPs in Wau and
Greater Khartoum $588,706
CARE emergency program for IDPs
in Unity State $64,071
Christian Mission Aid health program in
Upper Nile $364,993
CONCERN food security program in
Aweil West and Yirol $248,178
CRS emergency preparedness program
in Yei and Kajo Keji $427,751
CRS emergency program in food security,
health, and nutrition in Torit County $1,968,217
GOAL nutrition program in Bahr el Ghazal $159,307
International Aid Sweden/Medic road maintenance and
rehabilitation program in south Sudan $372,940
IFRC emergency activities in flood-affected areas $25,000
International Medical Corps sleeping
sickness program in Western Equatoria $663,434
International Rescue Committee (IRC) umbrella project in
north Sudan $730,906
IRC health program in Aweil West and Rumbek $749,912
IRC health and water/sanitation program
in Upper Nile $800,000
MEDAIR health and nutrition project
in Yirol County $250,000
Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)/Belgium health
and nutrition project in Bahr el Ghazal $1,500,000
MSF/France nutrition program in Ajiep $751,200
MSF/Holland health and water sanitation activity
in northern Bor County $323,310
MSF/Holland nutrition program in Upper Nile $873,800
MSF/Holland nutrition program in
Panthou, Bahr el Ghazal $1,483,555
MSF/Switzerland nutrition program
in Tonj County $500,000
NPA support for the hospital in Yei $103,214
NPA food and agriculture rehabilitation program
in Eastern Equatoria/Lakes $1,814,139
NPA/Sudan Medical Corps health program in
Eastern Equatoria $350,721
Replacement of blankets, plastic sheeting
and water jugs $400,925
Save the Children(SC)/US nutrition, food security,
and water and sanitation program in South
Kordofan and Sidra IDP camps $780,075
SC/US emergency response and rehabilitation
project in South Kordofan State and
Sidra IDP Camp $780,075
Save the Children Federation (SCF)/UK emergency
seeds and tools project in Bahr el Ghazal $200,002
SCF/UK emergency preparedness and rehabilitation
program in Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile $464,961
SCF/UK map production to improve targeting $38,440
UNHCR program support to benefit IDPs
in Khartoum $354,300
UNICEF northern sector health
program in Aweil and Wau towns $316,527
UNICEF emergency seeds and tools program
in Bahr el Ghazal $361,273
UNICEF/OLS Southern Sector support $4,718,500
Veterinaries sans Frontieres/Belgium livestock
program in Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile $600,850
WFP Southern Sector support $1,500,000
World Vision, Inc (WVI) emergency response
and rehabilitation program in Bahr el Ghazal $309,888
WVI seeds and tools emergency program
in Bahr el Ghazal. $215,000
WVI supplementary/therapeutic feeding
program in Bahr el Ghazal $538,060
Total FY 98 BHR/OFDA Assistance $39,041,388
- BHR/FFP Assistance
In FY 1998, BHR/FFP contributed 57,550 MT of PL 480 Title II food
commodities valued at approximately $60 million for distribution by ADRA,
CRS, NPA, WFP, and WVI to war and drought affected vulnerable persons and
24,500 MT valued at approximately $7.8 million to support WFP refugee
operations in Sudan.
Total FY 98 BHR/FFP Assistance $67,848,500
USAID/AFR Assistance
In FY 1998, USAID's Bureau for Africa obligated $3 million to CRS and
UNICEF to support local community-building efforts and public
administration training in opposition-held areas in southern Sudan.
Total FY 98 USAID/AFR Assistance $3,000,000
- State/PRM Assistance
In FY 1998, State/PRM provided $73.4 million to the UNHCR, ICRC, and IFRC
Africa-wide appeals, portions of which are used for refugee assistance
programs in Sudan and for Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries.
State/PRM also provided $5 million to UNHCR for assistance in the Horn of
Africa (including Sudanese refugees and refugees in Sudan) and $4.5
million to WFP for refugee feeding programs in Africa. State/PRM has also
provided $1,371,369 to IRC and Lutheran World Federation for mostly
Sudanese refugees in northwest Kenya.
Total FY 98 State/PRM Assistance $84,271,369*
*State/PRM funding to Sudan is regional and, therefore, not included in
total USG assistance figures.
BHR/OFDA Assistance FY 1998 $ 39,041,388
BHR/FFP Assistance FY 1998 $ 67,848,500
USAID/AFR Assistance $ 3,000,000
USAID Assistance FY 1998 $109,889,888
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
H. Roy Williams
Director
Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
distributed by
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Disaster Information Center lists: listproc@vita.org
sitreps nat-dsr
web: www.vita.org appeal fireline
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
comments/suggestions/requests to incident@vita.org