December 19 - 2020 EL FASHER
Sudanese Red Crescent Society distribute essential household items to 1,500 vulnerable families in Jebel Marra in 2017 (ICRC)
The North Darfur branch of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society began distributing food provided by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday to more than 5,000 poor families in the state capital of El Fasher.
The director of the Red Crescent Society in North Darfur, Abdelrasoul Abdallah, said in a press statement that the programme targets more than 5,000 families, equivalent to 28,000 people, and 43 beggar families in the town.
The society will continue to distribute food provided by the WFP to the residents of Kasab and Fata Borno camps for the displaced and those affected by insecurity in Kutum, the people living in the Selek camp near El Fasher, the Rwanda, Borgo, and Dali camps, the 2014 group of displaced from Debbat Nayra in Tawila, the Shangil Tobaya and Shaddad camps in Dar El Salam locality, a