يوميات الثورة السودانية - الجزء الثالث

Quote: In SPLM-N held areas of Blue Nile, chronic food insecurity increased in Kurmuk County during the reporting period as harvested food supplies were exhausted in many areas following insufficient harvests in September 2013, due to climatic conditions, pests, limited agricultural inputs and limited access to agricultural land. In addition, limited access to water points for many communities has become an increasing concern during February 2014, with monitors reporting frequent population movements to informal IDP sites situated in riverine areas, as communities are often unable to access sufficient water in safer, established settlements. The health situation across SPLM-N held areas remained a priority concern for all communities monitored during the reporting period, with households self reporting disease and symptoms including: malaria, diarrhoea, upper/lower respiratory tract infections, coughing sickness, skin infections/leprosy, eye infections, tuberculosis. Aerial bombardment of civilian areas in Kurmuk County continued during February 2014, following an escalation in bombardment in late January 2014. More than 1,000 IDPs from 5 affected villages fled to informal IDP sites in bush areas of Chali Alfil payam during the reporting period.6 Monitors report that community concerns about SAF bombardment of IDP sites along the Sudan-South Sudan border may account for reduced population movements to the El Foj and Guffa crossing points during mid-late February 2014. Bombardment of civilian areas during February 2014 continued to impact market supply and price inflation in SPLM-N held areas of Blue Nile, with only five markets operational inside Kurmuk County during the reporting period. Tunfona and Mayak markets in Wadeka payam continue to operate though with highly inflated prices of the limited commodities available as a result of disruption in market supply due to front line activity. Soda market in Chali Alfil payam continues to function with goods (primarily food) from Maban County, with market prices for standard food items reported to be prohibitively high for many residents and IDPs to purchase a sufficient basket of items. Yabus Balla and Moguf markets in Yabus payam remain the most stable respectively, with supply lines from Ethiopia and competition among traders largely undisturbed by the conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan during February 2014. The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) projected ‘Crisis’ (IPC Phase 3) levels of food insecurity in Blue Nile State during the months ahead in its January-June 2014 Food Security Outlook, issued during the reporting period. FEWS NET projects that IDP and vulnerable households will exhaust harvest stocks and become entirely dependent on wild foods and market purchases by April 2014. However, as outlined above, the disruption of supply lines from Upper Nile State to markets in SPLM-N held areas such as Wadeka and Chali Alfil payams, along with already high demand for market food commodities, have already impacted food commodity availability and affordability. Monitors reported population movements from food insecure communities with exhausted harvest stocks in Panamayo, Moguf, Amerorayo, Sonda, Oss, Khor Alhassan, Yabus Bala and Yabus Kubri, moving to riverine areas in order to pan for gold during the reporting period, due to the need of many households to generate income in order to purchase food supplies. South Sudanese civilians fleeing conflict in Upper Nile State, South Sudan, reportedly crossed Yabus payam, in Kurmuk County of Blue Nile State during February 2014. No official documentation of access issues or protection concerns of the refugees has been undertaken in SPLM-N held areas of the Sudan-South Sudan border. A large number of refugees were reported to be attempting to cross through Kurmuk County en route to refugee camps in Benishangul Gumuz Region in Ethiopia via the Yabus crossing point during the reporting period. Monitors also reported bombardment of two border villages in Maban County, South Sudan, during the reporting period. Aerial bombardment of Khor Tumbak village reportedly resulted in ten casualties, including Sudanese refugees en route to Maban refugee camps to register for refugee assistance, following displacement due to aerial bombardment inside Blue Nile during January 2014. An attack on Guffa border area later in the month (also an IDP site) had no reported human casualties.