Displaced families at Kalma camp, east of Nyala in South Darfur, have protested school fees imposed on their children by the state Ministry of Education and Guidance, local Sudanese media reported on Saturday.
A local source told Darfur24 that parents had rejected admission fees of about 100,000 Sudanese pounds, saying families living in the camp could not afford the charges amid worsening economic conditions.
The parents submitted a complaint to the head of the camp’s education council, who later met school principals and the ministry’s emergency education director to discuss the issue.
The talks ended without an agreement, and representatives are now seeking a meeting with South Darfur’s education minister, Hafiz Ahmed Omar.
The source said humanitarian organisations had previously supported education services for displaced children at the camp but that the assistance had stopped for undisclosed reasons.
Kalma camp recently experienced security tensions after protesters set fire to the general administration headquarters. Calm has since returned.
The camp hosts more than 300,000 displaced people, the majority of them children, young people and women. It has also received thousands fleeing fighting since war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023.
