Hundreds of thousands lack adequate shelter at Sudan’s Tawila camp

Blue tents stand in tight rows at the Daba Naira camp in Tawila, 68 kilometres west of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan, racked by war.The tents were set up by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with support from the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Mass grave with 25 bodies found in Sudan’s Kurmuk after army retakes townlist 2 of 3Is Sudan’s battlefield shaping the terms of its next political phase?list 3 of 3Where water conflicts pose the biggest threat in 2026end of listRelief teams have erected 3,000 new tents in recent months, but the number is negligible compared with the needs of more than 665,000 displaced people, the IOM said in a statement.The most pressing question remains: how can this number of tents possibly be enough for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, especially when rainfall threatens to turn the low‑lying ground into swamps?Promises of aidAbdelbagi Mohamed Hamid, the minister of social welfare and humanitarian affairs coordinator in the Darfur region, told Al Jazeera Arabic that the regional government appealed to donors, including the Turkish ambassador, to...