UN To Support IDPS And Local Authority In Warrap Large numbers of Abyei’s Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs living at Turalei in Twic County of Warrap State were visited by the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung Wha Kang, to monitor on their affairs as the humanitarian crisis in Abyei worsens.25 June 2011 UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung Wha Kang briefing the press [©Gurtong]By Deng Simon Deng TURALEI, 25th June, 2011-[Gurtong] – Large numbers of Abyei’s Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs living at Turalei in Twic County of Warrap State were visited by the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung Wha Kang, to monitor on their affairs as the humanitarian crisis in Abyei worsens.
While speaking to Gurtong at the Kwajok airstrip in Warrap State after her visit to Abyei IDPs camp in Twic County, Kyung Wha said that the UN-Human Right was deeply concerned about the IDPs situation and the local community in the area. “We’re very concerned about the Abyei IDPs situation in Turalei. As the UN, we need to give humanitarians support to them and the local communities that were affected by the conflict in Abyei. We know that the Abyei situation was worse during the first fighting and most of the IDPs must have made their way to Twic County.” She said that UN system needed much more support but still they will go ahead to support the operations in Twic community and Abyei IDPs. Kyung’s visit was to assess how the situation was being handled by the UN staff and to tackle some issues that were not possible with humanitarian aid organizations in the field. It was encouraging for her that the local communities were kind to the IDPs living in the area and that was a good sign of the cooperation between the host communities with the Abyei’s IDPs. “The IDPs situation is stable at the moment but there is need to deal with what they want to do through humanitarian aid organizations that are providing the basic needs especially food and shelter,” Kyung said. South Sudan is facing a lot of challenges and it is upon international community to support them materially, mentally and financially, Kyung reiterated. Posted in: Home, Humanitarian, Foreign Aid/Assistance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
