Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sudan: IDPs in the cold as slum demolished

UN Humanitarian News Service (IRIN - East Africa)
4 December 2008
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81815



MANDELA - Thousands of people in a slum 20km south of Khartoum are living in makeshift shelters made of sticks and cloth after their homes were razed by the government.

Local officials said 4,000 homes were destroyed as part of a government plan to reorganise the Mandela settlement to make it more habitable. Another 6,000 are due to be demolished.

"When this is over, people will move back, build and live in peace," said Madut Wek, secretary to the local administrative unit, the Mandela popular committee, which is aligned to the government.

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