Archive for December 30th, 2023

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30/12/2023

Explainer: How Darfur Became a ‘Humanitarian Calamity and Catastrophic Human Rights Crisis’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The outbreak of conflict seven months ago in Sudan has led to “a convergence of a worsening humanitarian calamity and a catastrophic human rights crisis”, according to a senior UN official, and the restive region of Darfur has been particularly badly affected.

A Sudanese mother and her children take refuge in a town in Chad across the border from Darfur in Sudan.
© UNICEF/Annadjib Ramadane Maha | A Sudanese mother and her children take refuge in a town in Chad across the border from Darfur in Sudan.
Close to nine million people need humanitarian assistance and reports suggest that some 4,000 people have been targeted and killed because of their ethnicity.

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30/12/2023

Gaza: United Nations Calls for Urgent Aid Scale-Up amid New Mass Exodus to Rafah

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — In Gaza, at least 100,000 displaced people have poured into Rafah in recent days, UN humanitarians said on Friday [], worsening already dire conditions in the southernmost part of the enclave.

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People fleeing fighting in Gaza continue to search for safe places to shelter in the enclave.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | People fleeing fighting in Gaza continue to search for safe places to shelter in the enclave.

“A traumatized and exhausted population” is being “crammed into a smaller and smaller sliver of land,” UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths warned on social platform X on Friday.

But serious obstacles persist to bringing more aid to those in need amid relentless Israeli bombardment and intense fighting on the ground.

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