Algiers, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Saharawi Red Crescent (CRS), Yahia Buhobeini, warned Tuesday the international community against attempts to discourage donors in granting the aid to Sahrawi refugees after the recent release of an EU report on humanitarian aid from 2007.
Buhobeini, speaking from Awserd, Saharawi refugee camps, in a telephone interview with Algeria Press Service (APS) said that “the purpose of releasing the report, which has nothing to do with the reality on the ground, is to discourage donors to allocate their aid to refugees and to worsen the humanitarian situation in the Saharawi refugee camps.”
After stating that the information in possession of the CRS report “acts of individuals working for Morocco when the European Union (EU) has not talked about the existence of diversion of humanitarian aid in the Saharawi refugee camps,” Buhobeini called on the international community not to “fall into the trap handling and bad intentions.”
President of the CRS alerted the international community to “the seriousness of such attempts,” adding that such misleading practices, “may not only increase the suffering of refugees, but it is likely to make life more difficult in the refugee camps where the humanitarian situation is alarming due to depletion of food stocks.”
According to an estimate from the same official, an equivalent of one month of sugar and oil remains in the stocks, while the stock of flour is totally exhausted.
Faced with this situation, “we started to use emergency stocks, provided for a period of three months, such as rice and pulses,” warned the Saharawi humanitarian official. (SPS)
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