As part of the joint United Nations (UN) interagency Flash Appeal
for Sudan, IOM is urgently seeking USD 422,000 to deliver
much-needed relief assistance to some 33,000 particularly
vulnerable flood-affected households in Northern and Southern
Sudan.

The funding will allow IOM to bring emergency shelter materials
and non food items (NFI) such as plastic sheeting, blankets,
mosquito nets, cooking sets, jerry cans and sleeping mats to
families living in often difficult-to-reach areas. 

As part of the on-going relief effort and in coordination with
the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC), the Government
of National Unity (GoNU), the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),
IOM aims provide secondary emergency transportation assistance from
the towns of Kosti, Kassala, Port Sudan and Damazin to remote
flooded areas. Assistance for Southern Sudan will also be sent from
Khartoum using planes and, whenever possible, barges and
trucks.

"The logistics of the aid operation are incredibly complex as
many of the roads we've used in the past to return of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) have been washed away," says IOM's Mary
Giudice. "IOM is looking into other means of delivering assistance,
including by barge along the river Nile to South Sudan."

With funding from Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the
Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), IOM has already delivered a total
of 500 NFI kits to particularly vulnerable families who have lost
everything to the floods in and around Bentiu in Unity State. An
additional 1,500 NFI kits are currently being distributed. Some 400
tents provided by the UNJLC's "Common Pipeline" will be delivered
by IOM to families in Bentiu once new funding is secured.

The floods, the worst in living memory, have already affected
some 420,000 people with a further 270,000 people currently at
risk.

In Northern Sudan, flash-flood warnings have been issued for
Northern Kordofan, White Nile, Kassala, and Red Sea States, as well
as Northern, Southern and Western Darfur.

In Southern Sudan, where the Government has issued a flood
disaster declaration in six states, the situation remains
particularly critical in Renk County in Upper Nile.

For further information, please contact:

Simona Opitz

IOM Khartoum

Tel: + 249 9123 39700

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