Authorities Say Over 50,000 IDPs In Thobo County Need Food, Shelter
(Voice of Peace Radio-Gidel Nuba Mts) 12th July 2024
More than 55,330 Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs are in urgent need of food, shelter, clean drinking water and education services in Thobo County of Nuba Mountains region.
Speaking to Radio Voice of Peace on Thursday, Thobo County Executive Director, Margan Abdalla Daldum, says the influx of IDPs into Thobo County came as result of fierce fighting between the two army generals of Sudan Abdul Fatta Alburan and Mohammed Hamdan Dagolo known as Hametti in April last year.
He adds that IDPs are desperately in need of food and non-food items calling for international humanitarian organizations to intervene in order to save the lives of the hungry people from starvation.
Mr. Abdalla says lack of food has forced thousands of people to eat leaves of trees and grass in order to survive.
He mentions that the host community is equally hungry as well as IDPs because last year there was poor rainfall and the locust ate all their crops leaving them without food to eat.