Food aid for displaced squatters

WFP has provided food relief to more than 10,200 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) who were recently displaced again as a result of the demolition of their shelters in four Khartoum squatter areas, a recent WFP report said. The food was distributed through the NGO ADRA. The IDPs have “stepped up construction of new dwellings in the new site” in anticipation of the rainy season, the report said. Meanwhile, humanitarian sources told IRIN that only limited social services were presently available at a site called Ed Babiker, where a part of the affected displaced squatter population had been relocated. Tens of thousands of squatters, mainly displaced people from southern Sudan, are estimated to have been affected by the government’s urban renewal programme since 1991.