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The aim of the UNJLC bulletins is to provide a concise weekly overview of UNJLC activities and the present logistical situation in regard to the planning and preparedness for the crisis in Darfur.
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CONTENTS
1. OVERVIEW
2. SECURITY
3. COMMON NFI PIPELINE
4. AIR OPERATIONS
5. FUEL
6. ROAD TRANSPORT AND ACCESS
7. OTHER
OVERVIEW
- Logistics operations in Darfur remain in a constant state of flux. This should be the easiest time of the year for logistics support with good road conditions throughout the region, but because of security issues road transport to many locations in Darfur is impossible or possible with great delays. WFP, for example, has not yet been able to reach their goal of 2 M people to receive assistance in Darfur primarily because of security problems.
- Security problems have also caused day-to-day disruptions of WFP’s delivery of food by air, because of Jet-A1 fuel shortages in Nyala.
- NFI through the common pipeline remains marginally adequate for the most basic items (plastic sheeting, blankets, water containers, and soap) but the allocation of two blankets per family is proving too few in many of the higher locations (El Geneina in particular) and OCHA/UNJLC are reviewing ways that additional supplies could be made available.
- IDP numbers and locations remain problematic with IDP locations increasing and decreasing in size. Establishing whether ‘new’ IDP arrivals at a location have received basic NFI at another location is impossible and thus increasing the NFI requirement. OCHA/UNJLC and NGO camp management agencies are reviewing ways to mitigate this problem.
- Scheduled relocations of IDPs, as for example currently planned for some IDPs in Kalma camp, may also increase NFI needs if the IDPs are unable to bring their NFI (particularly plastic sheeting) with them to the new location.
- NFI air cargo operations from Khartoum are not going well. There is a shortage of capacity particularly to El Geneina. UN agencies and NGOs are now chartering their own aircraft or using commercial air freight because of this limited capacity made available by UNHAS. The UNJLC is encouraging UNHAS to increase its NFI capacity. MCDU assistance may be required, preferably through UNHAS, to move the cargo.
- UNJLC/CARE established a no-charge trucking operation from Khartoum to the Darfur states to handle lower priority/low value shipments to the Darfurs to reduce the air cargo requirement. This mechanism has been under utilized and its availability will be circulated more widely at the UNCT and NGO coordination meeting levels.
- Several meetings were held with DPKO staff to review supply arrangements from the north to south. Based on information provided by DPKO for shipments expected up to end February the military deployment will have no significant impact on transport resources (particularly trucks out of Port Sudan). However, far greater transport requirements are expected from DPKO hired contractors. DPKO has no direct information on this and further research will be required. A DPKO hired contractor for pre-fabricated housing units report informally to the UNJLC that he would have about 800 truck loads from Port Sudan to the south.
- The UNJLC is also meeting with DPKO on fuel issues. A separate report will be released in coming weeks. Commercial diesel supply in all locations in Darfur remains adequate.