Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene November - December 2016 vol.11 No.6 | Page 9

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refugees.
“The congestion at the water points is too much and people
spend hours at the points trying to get water.
He said the problem could only be reduced by drilling more
boreholes in the settlement.

mentioned by President Al Bashir in the context of the
National Dialogue.

Ms Mary Akol, another refugee said: “My children cannot
bathe because the water we get is used to cook food. The
situation is not different from our dry lands in South Sudan.”
Mr Robert Baryamwesiga, the settlement commandant said
the low water table has frustrated efforts by UN agencies to
drill boreholes in the camp.

Former Halaib Constituency MP Mohamed
Osman Okir echoed that water shortages
in the region have left many people to die
of thirst in the desert.
Recently he demanded the provision of
tankers to transport water to the area.
Meanwhile, MPs from the east of the
country have confirmed the depletion in
the groundwater of certain projects and of
the Nile which coincided with the start of
filling the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
MP Awad El Karim Babiker Ahmad has
reported that the farmers have complained
of the