The ICRC in Sudan

Sudan. A displaced woman tends to her crops.

The ICRC’s priorities in Sudan are to ensure that people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence receive emergency aid and enjoy the protection to which they are entitled under international humanitarian law (IHL). The ICRC provides water, food, shelter and medical care, and re-establishes contact between people separated by fighting. Read full overview

Highlights

Facts and Figures

Poorly developed infrastructure, strained by years of armed conflict, has made it extremely cumbersome for civilians in Sudan to obtain basic goods and services such as clean water, health care, food and shelter. In this complex environment, the ICRC has tried to help the civilians who are the most vulnerable.

Between January 2010 and June 2011, the ICRC has:

provided around 920,000 people in Darfur, central and southern Sudan with emergency food rations;
built and repaired water yards and hand pumps in Darfur and central and southern Sudan, where over 450,000 people and their livestock gained access to clean drinking water;
provided seven primary health-care centres all over Darfur, where more than 350,000 people were treated, with drugs and medical supplies;
deployed a mobile surgical team that performed operations on 85 weapon-wounded patients in Malakal hospital;
supported eight physical rehabilitation centres where more than 5,500 patients received services;
supported almost 131,000 livestock owners, by vaccinating their animals;
delivered around 20,000 Red Cross messages between separated family members;
held sessions with around 8,500 arms carriers and civil society members, informing them about the ICRC and discussing international humanitarian law;
supported the Ministry of Health with their vaccination campaigns through which over 83,000 children in Darfur were vaccinated against childhood diseases.

The ICRC has 881 staff in Sudan, including 63 expatriates.