86,000 urgently need food in Jonglei state: official
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February 17, 2016 (BOR) – More than 86,000 people are currently in
urgent need for food assistance in Duk and Twic counties of South
Sudan’s Jonglei state, an official from the Relief and Rehabilitation
Commission (RRC), told Sudan Tribune Tuesday.
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Thousands of civilians fleeing violence seek shelter at a UN compound
in Jonglei state capital, Bor (Photo: UNMISS/Hailemichael Gebrekrstos)
The state RRC acting director, James Jok, urged the humanitarian
cluster to act swiftly by providing life-saving relief food and
non-food items to returnees and the Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) in Twic East’s Wernyol payam and Padiet payam in Duk county.
Jok, who led various humanitarian agencies to the area, said over
86,000 people were in dire need of food support as well as non-food
items.
“The assessment was done successfully, we went to Duk padiet and also
to Poktap and before we reached those places we passed by Wernyol
where we got 21,000 returnees in Wernyol and in Duk Padiet payam which
include Ayueldit and Duk Padiet, we got 65,000 people in which 88
percent of the population are IDPs from Uror and Nyirol,” he said.
Jok said he organised a meeting with the humanitarian cluster on 17
February to assign each agency specific roles of intervention to curb
hunger in the area and develop a comprehensive strategy by Friday.
“Today, Wednesday, we will be able to discuss the draft report and
then by Friday we will release the final reports that will determine
what kind of intervention that each of the agency will,” stressed the
RRC director.
He also urged the South Sudanese government to intervene on the side
of infrastructures so that the health facilities and schools are
constructed.
Over two million people, agencies say, were displaced during the
21-month old conflict that broke out in the world’s youngest nation
since its start in mid-December 2013.
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17 February 11:32, by okucu pa lotinokwan
They are talking in the names of 86,000 people in urgent of relief
assistance but when the relief come in they are selling in the main
market, come and witness what is taking place in Marol market
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17 February 12:13, by Ajongtar
Akucha, How have died?
why does killing, abduction, corruption, poverty, diseases,
murdering and cattle riding exist in your jungle state? simply because
you are junglese means jungle creature with rough view. In Equatoria
everyone could afford to buy 1 kig of sugar unlike you dogs relying on
poor feeding of raw milk and Equatorian exports. You will recover from
this madess after 200 years ahead.
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