Over 40,000 people displaced in Lakes state need assistance
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December 26, 2013 (RUMBEK) – Authorities in South Sudan’s Lakes state
want assistance provided to over 40,000 displaced people who fled
fighting in neighbouring Jonglei state and settled within its
territories.
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Hundreds of people displaced by fighting in Bor town, Jonglei state
Decmber 21, 2013 (Photo: Moses Lomoyat)
The incident came in the wake of violent clashes between forces loyal
to President Salva Kiir and anti-governmental forces, which started
from the country’s capital, Juba on 15 December.
A number of senior politicians, mainly ex-ministers, have been
detained in connection with what government says was a failed coup
attempt by forces loyal to its former vice-president Riek Machar.
Phillip Kot Job, a South Sudan Relief Rehabilitation Commission
(SSRRC) official in the state, called upon the central government and
humanitarian organisations to quickly respond to the plight of those
internally displaced in Guol-yar of Awerial county.
“The situation is very critical and urgent assistance to internally
displaced persons is needed”, he said Thursday.
According to Kot, people displaced from Bor, the Jonglei state capital
crossed River Nile in large numbers.
“These people, most of them women and children, are now just under the
trees, they have no shelters. And they are drinking water direct from
the river which is contaminated”, he explained.
26 DEAD
At least 26 children, South Sudan Red Cross reported, died as people
fled fighting in Bor town into Lakes state, since last week.
“Seven children drowned on Tuesday night after falling into the river
during an attempted crossing from Bor to Guol-yar, a village within
Awerial county of Lakes state”, David Gai Deer, Red Cross Jonglei
branch director, told Sudan Tribune.
The other 19, he said, died from Diarrhea.
"They don’t have shelter because they ran away with not even an item.
So they really have nothing and are facing shelter problem, food
problem and medicine, which are real priorities”, he stressed.
Over 30,000 internally displaced persons, official said, are currently
stationed in Guol-yar with more expected to arrive by boat from Bor.
HUMANITARIAN APPEAL
The United Nations said on Wednesday that aid agencies will need
US$166 million in order to address the humanitarian needs of South
Sudanese people affected by the violence of the last 10 days.
This funding would enable the UN and its humanitarian partners to
provide for South Sudanese who have been newly displaced and the
200,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled from violence north of the
border until March next year.
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