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...Some of the groups have been forced to shut down operations completely. An MSF hospital in the Kalma Camp in South Darfur has been closed. Boreholes operated by the International Rescue Committee have fuel to pump water for two more weeks. MSF Holland had planned a campaign to vaccinate 91,000 people against meningitis, but that been called off despite the presence of meningitis around the city of Nyala, near Kalma. "We were prepared for a mass vaccination campaign and were just waiting for the vaccine to arrive," said van Schoor. "Now I don't know what's going...
...Some groups, including the World Food Program and Catholic Relief Services, were allowed to continue operating. Still, several of the organizations were the only ones providing their particular services - MSF and the IRC, for example, were the sole providers of medical services in the Kalma, and their clinics will either be closed or run by internally displaced people with minimal training...
...vast swaths of land outside the control of either the government or the rebels, lawlessness prevails. Attacks on trucks and aid convoys make roads too dangerous to travel, and the scared and hungry arrive at swollen relief camps daily. Even then, their safety is not ensured. At Kalma, Darfur's largest camp, refugees complain of government harassment, and women who venture beyond in search of firewood and fodder are often raped...
...Doctors Without Borders documented 500 rapes over a four-month period, senior aid workers were arrested for publishing false reports, undermining state security and spying. The charges were eventually dropped, but the government still denies the assertion. In June, Western diplomats and U.N. representatives gathered with aid workers in Kalma to discuss the government's failure to halt the rapes. Even as Sudanese officials contested claims of sexual violence, a slip of paper was handed to an aid worker. Another woman had been raped...