Question follow-through · 17546
Sudan: Internally Displaced People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of recent reports of the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan being shelled by Rapid Support Forces.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of recent reports of the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan being shelled by Rapid Support Forces.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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6 Dec 2024
Answer published
The UK is appalled by recent reports of the Rapid Support Forces' indiscriminate shelling of Zamzam camp, the largest camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sudan. There are an estimated 500,000 people living in Zamzam camp, where famine was decla...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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