Al Dabbah in Sudan’s Northern State hosts more than 20,000 internally displaced people who fled Darfur and Kordofan, with UN field estimates placing one camp at around 26,000 residents and numbers rising daily.

Sanitation is critically inadequate, with roughly 100 toilets reported for the entire camp and contaminated wells increasing the risk of waterborne disease.

Many arrivals endured weeks of travel and require urgent medical attention, but UN agencies say they lack sufficient resources after international funding was slashed last year, limiting food, health, and sanitation provision.

Darfur and parts of Kordofan are already classified by UN assessments as famine risk zones, and the influx has pushed per capita aid below humanitarian standards.

The failure to match resources to need has transformed displacement into a public health emergency, with heightened risks of malnutrition, infectious disease outbreaks, and preventable mortality, raising urgent human rights obligations for donor states and relief actors.