“If humanitarian work in Darfur is forced to scale back because of the unsafe and insecure conditions for our staff and partners, then many more people in Darfur will suffer,” he said.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) told AFP that because World Vision was one of its partners in South Darfur, and because of the security situation, there will be a disruption of food aid.
“We estimate that around a little over 400,000 people will be affected,” mainly in Nyala, said WFP spokeswoman Amor Almagro.
Schoolchildren and pregnant and nursing mothers were among those receiving WFP assistance through World Vision, she said.
In February, a UN panel of experts reported “some incidents in which former members of government militias have forcibly expressed their discontent with the current government, especially against the backdrop of rising inflation and unemployment”.
The United States charge d’affaires to Sudan, Joseph Stafford, later said Washington was worried “about the deteriorating security situation in Darfur and the conflict between the government forces and the militia”.
The UN says an estimated 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of fighting in Darfur this year, more than in the past two years combined.
There were already 1.4 million people in camps for Darfuris displaced by the decade-long conflict.
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