USAID complex emergency situation report for September

Given the current phase of Sudan’s 17 year-old civil war, USAID has in its analysis released its 11 September Sudan complex emergency report. According to the UN Humanitarian Coordination Unit (UNHCU), there were an estimated 4 million IDPs in Sudan, including 2 million in greater Khartoum and 1.2 million in the transitional zone and southern areas. The report added that the UNHCR had broken down the amount of Sudanese refugees according to region, including 175,000 in Uganda, 80,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 58,507 in Ethiopia, 32,000 in Kenya, 35,500 in the Central African Republic, and 20,000 in Chad. In the meantime, Sudan hosted refugees from other countries, including 147,302 Eritreans registered in Sudan as of January 2000. With the flare-up of fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea in May, 2000, another group of Eritrean refugees, estimated to number up to 90,000, fled to eastern Sudan: of this group, an estimated 21,000 have returned to Eritrea. The USAID report examines the background of the conflict, the numbers affected and the current situation. In addition, it discusses the issues of food security, health and nutrition, the inter-ethnic peace process, refugees returning, as well as USAID/OFDA’s humanitarian assistance totalling almost US $ 22 million. [To read a complete copy see: http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/sudan_ib01_fy00.html]