IDP and Refugee Coordination Body Describes Humanitarian Situation in Tawila as “Catastrophic”
Tawila – Sudanhorizon
The General Coordination Body for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Refugees in Darfur has described the humanitarian situation in Tawila Camp—one of Sudan’s largest displacement camps—as catastrophic.
According to a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Coordination Body, Adam Regal, the camp has received more than one million displaced people since the outbreak of the war on April 15, 2023.
The statement added that, following the recent events in El Fasher, hundreds of thousands of displaced persons have arrived in Tawila in dire humanitarian conditions. According to the statement:
- 1,600 people have been subjected to gender-based violence
- 3,100 people have suffered gunshot wounds
- 1,700 children and 3,600 elderly people are suffering from malnutrition
The statement further noted that the number of internally displaced people across Darfur has exceeded 7 million, in addition to host communities that themselves are exhausted and overwhelmed.
The Coordination Body warned that the situation in the camp is deteriorating rapidly as displacement continues and humanitarian needs escalate.
It called on the United Nations, international and regional humanitarian organizations, and all people of conscience to act immediately to save civilians in displacement camps from hunger, war, and epidemics.
The Coordination Body urged the international and regional community to exert maximum pressure to stop the war, describing the situation on the ground as catastrophic and intolerable.
It also called for an independent international investigation into widespread and grave violations, including gender-based violence, extrajudicial killings, looting, abductions, extortion, the use of chemical weapons, and the deliberate starvation of civilians as a weapon of war.
The statement concluded that Sudan is in urgent need of a genuine peace that ends policies of starvation against civilians and restores to displaced people their rights to security, dignity, and voluntary return.
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