Conflict and Hunger in Sudan: an NGO call to action
The conflict in Sudan has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Now fighting, displacement and lack of humanitarian access to the most...
Read moreCOOPI activated a rapid emergency response, providing humanitarian assistance to the displaced mainly through WASH and non-food items (NFIs) activities by distributing drinking water and basic necessities such as blankets, small cooking utensils, water containers, plastic sheeting and ropes, to set up temporary shelters while waiting for IDP sites.
In the field, COOPI's work is carried out in a coordinated manner with other humanitarian actors in the country to integrate the various humanitarian emergency management interventions.
Since 2004, COOPI has been present in Sudan, where it implemented development and humanitarian assistance interventions and supported the most vulnerable groups, afflicted by conflicts and natural disasters, including refugees, displaced persons and host communities. At first, COOPI operated in North Darfur; while later on, in 2019, it expanded its presence to eastern Sudan - Kassala and Gedaref - and the capital Khartoum.
Over the years, COOPI adopted a multi-sectoral and integrated approach, which led to a considerable improvement and access to basic services with programmes dedicated to Shelter and Non-Food Items, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Disaster Risk Reduction in the states of North Darfur, Kassala and Khartoum.
COOPI is currently actively engaged in the humanitarian emergency supporting the population affected by the conflict that broke out on April 15th, 2023 between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces.
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The conflict in Sudan has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Now fighting, displacement and lack of humanitarian access to the most...
Read moreFar from the spotlight, struggling with a year-long conflict, Sudan continues to face one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. In this alarming...
Read moreIn six months 9,000 people were killed and 6 million displaced. In Darfur, ethnic cleansing nightmare returns: half a million flee to Chad but camps are...
Read moreSource: Corriere della Sera, Mondo Capovolto On April 15, 2023, the current, umpteenth, Sudanese conflict broke out, with humanitarian...
Read moreThe increasing numbers of crises between 2022 and 2023, due to the effects of climate change, natural hazards and wars, have thrown into disarray dozens of...
Read moreDue to the current humanitarian crisis, the Sudanese people are facing unimaginable suffering and the slow pace of global response is a deep concern of the...
Read moreThe Sudan INGO forum, of which COOPI - International Cooperation is a member, calls on delegates in the city of Jeddah, who are committed to ensuring regional...
Read moreIn the last days of July, the Sudanese team of COOPI has distributed food baskets and shelter materials to over 700 displaced families in Gedaref, on the...
Read more6 June 2023 This opinion article was originally published by The New Humanitarian. By Will Carter, Norwegian Refugee Council Gedaref, Sudan...
Read moreSince the conflict in Sudan between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces erupted on April 15, 2023, more than 1,400,000 people have fled the capital...
Read moreThe Sudan INGO Forum, to whom COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale belongs, denounces that over the last week at least 15 offices of International...
Read moreSudan INGO Forum, to whom COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale takes part, calls on conflict parties to ensure protection of civilians, including aid...
Read moreDue to the serious crisis that broke out on Saturday 15 April, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale was forced to repatriate the 11 international workers...
Read moreLike every year, the rain in Sudan was expected and feared. This time, however, the dangers and disasters caused by the floods were successfully avoided. The...
Read moreStarting from 2020, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale has worked in the locality of Kabkabiya, North Darfur State, by implementing an operation called:...
Read moreOctober 15, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale celebrated the Global Handwashing Day with several events in Darfur, Khartoum and Gedaref...
Read moreMaking use of the clean and free energy from the Sun: this is what 30 women started doing in Umbaru Locality, North Darfur, Sudan. The women will run the...
Read moreIn June 2021, COOPI provided 1,800 households (approximately 10,800 beneficiaries) with a variety of vegetable seeds as part of our project "To Mitigate...
Read moreThe rain that pours down every July on the areas of the Mayo refugee camp, on the outskirts of Khartoum (Sudan), is enough to flood houses and roads. But since...
Read moreThe conflict that broke out in November 2020 in the Ethiopian region of Tigray has caused the influx of thousands of refugees in the eastern states of Sudan,...
Read moreAbout 60 kilometers North East of Mellit locality, in North Darfur State (Sudan), COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale is about to complete the...
Read moreAn open letter to States and their Leaders from the civil society organisations working with and for the 270 million people facing hunger, starvation or famine...
Read moreSince the beginning of the Tigrinya refugee crisis, COOPI - in close coordination with AICS (Italian Development Cooperation Agency) - has started the...
Read moreOver the last couple of years, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale has created 30 Village Saving Loan Association (VSLA) groups in Umbaru and Kornoi...
Read moreSince the end of November 2020, COOPI has started to provide drinking water (filtered and chlorinated) to refugees from Tigray (Ethiopia) stationed at the...
Read moreThe conflict that erupted in November 2020 in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is at the root of an alarming humanitarian emergency, which has involved not only...
Read moreAs of 1 January 2021, a new partnership contract between the European Union's Department for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and...
Read moreOn the 19th and 20th September, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale urgently distributed 1,000 family food baskets to the most vulnerable households of...
Read moreThanks to the sudden support of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), since November 14, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is providing...
Read moreThe current internal conflict between the Tigray region and the central Ethiopian government is causing a humanitarian crisis which - barring unlikely...
Read moreLast 21st October, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale was the first organization to respond to the flood emergency in Kabkabiya town, the capital of Kabkabiya...
Read moreOn Friday 9 October, the World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to...
Read moreIn the wake of the recent disasters caused by the floods in Sudan, and after the recent distributions in the 5 most affected villages of Jebel Awliya in...
Read moreStarting from the mid of August 2020 Sudan is facing a heavy rainy season which got worse during the last week of the month. On the 2nd of September 2020,...
Read moreSudan – In the latest month, COOPI completed the construction of seedbanks and nurseries in Meski and Kerfu (North Darfur). These infrastructures, built...
Read moreIn Sudan, Covid-19 pandemic is threatening health, food security and nutrition security. As of the 24th of June 2020, confirmed covid-19 cases were 9,275,...
Read moreNearly one year after the flood that hit the town of Al Kuma (80 km North of El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan), monitoring reports indicate that COOPI...
Read moreDams realized with innovative materials, veterinary centers equipped with solar panels and improved latrines, seed banks managed by Committees: COOPI built...
Read moreSince COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, COOPI has continued to support vulnerable people in the Republic of Sudan, a country where still today only 23% of...
Read moreMohammed Ahmad, 45 years old, is a farmer living in Um-Jedad village, in Rural Aroma Locality – Sudan. Together with other farmers of his village, he is...
Read moreAmgoumash, Kaltouma Abdalla, Sadja and Najza are some of the women beneficiaries of the European Union funded project “Mitigate the effect of El...
Read moreCOOPI supported community of Wadi Garad – North Darfur - by constructing an artificial pond, which is the Bismilahi’s haffir, thanks to the...
Read moreAdam Ibrahim Adam, aged 47 and father of 6 children (3 girls and 3 boys), is a resident of Um Gedad village, one of the most remote villages in Rural Aroma...
Read moreIn December 2019, COOPI conducted a mid-term evaluation on the European Union funded project ‘Strengthening Local Communities resilience to climate...
Read moreAdam Ahmed Ali is an animal breeder who lives in Matatib village, in the state of Kassala, in Eastern Sudan. Due to an endemic disease his cattle has suffered...
Read moreOvergrazing and deforestation have resulted into a big shift in vegetation of Mellit, Mallah and Um Kaddada towns in North Darfur, which is now characterised...
Read moreWater is now available to 18,000 households in North Darfur, Sudan, thanks to small-scale, solar-powered irrigation systems. By rehabilitating three...
Read moreOver the last few months, a tree nursery was set up in Mellit, North West of El Fasher in North Darfur, which allowed to plant over 10,000 seedlings of...
Read moreIn July 2019, the distribution of 900 agricultural kits began at the only school in the so-called Rural Aroma area in Koga, Sudan. 112 farmers received the...
Read moreIn the last 30 years, the El Niño weather phenomenon has caused drought and a decline in rainfall throughout Sudan, affecting about 59.5 million people....
Read moreWater is a priority in the state of Kassala, in eastern Sudan. This is what Mohammed Ahmad told us – he is a member of the Hidnadwa community, the...
Read moreMarginalisation, underdevelopment and poverty have long affected the state of Kassala, making it one of the most vulnerable states in Sudan, exposed...
Read moreIn 2018, 70.8 million people fled war and persecution – this is the highest number ever recorded by the United Nations Refugee Agency in the Global...
Read moreMr. Osman Abubaker Osman is a farmer in Baina village in North Darfur who adopted an innovative practice of harvesting water coming from mountain to his farm...
Read moreTry to imagine an area of 296,420 km², where an estimated population of approximately 1,583,000 people (2006) are at risk of malnutrition, lack water and...
Read moreIn April 2019, the "Promotion of social and economic development in North and South Darfur and Red Sea State" project, financed by the Italian...
Read moreAtong Dut is a 30 years old South Sudanese woman living as a refugee in the Abu Jara village, located in Al Lait, North Darfur. She is living with the...
Read moreAs the security is slowly improving in North Darfur, thousands of people are returning home. It is estimated that 7.713 people went back to Sudan in the last...
Read moreThe 2015/2016 global El Niño event is considered to be one of the strongest on record. As of August 2016, close to 24 million people in East Africa have...
Read moreSidic was born in the Republic of Sudan, just a short distance from Orshi dam, in a village called Lil. In 2016 COOPI repaired the dam which had been...
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