South Sudan Orders Second Aid Worker To Leave The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is deeply dismayed about the order for a second senior staff member to leave South Sudan in less than a week.
14 December 2016 JUBA, 15 December 2016 [Gurtong]- NRC has not received any formal explanation of the charges against these two individuals. The latest incident comes on the eve of the third anniversary of the outbreak of South Sudan’s civil war, on 15 December 2013. NRC’s Area Manager in Alek, Warrap State, was told to leave South Sudan yesterday and has now arrived safely in Nairobi. This comes only four days after NRC’s Country Director was also ordered to leave the country.“The order for a second senior staff member to leave is unacceptable,” said Jan Egeland, NRC’s Secretary General. “Aid organizations bringing relief to millions in South Sudan must be permitted to operate without interference, intimidation or fear of expulsion. Humanitarian principles must be respected. Ordering aid workers to leave the country without due process restricts the ability of relief organizations to save lives and reduce human suffering.” “Aid organizations cannot operate under these conditions. Without assurances from the authorities that we will be able to operate without interference, NRC may have to reassess our ability to deliver assistance at scale in South Sudan,” continued Egeland. The Norwegian Refugee Council has been active in southern Sudan since 2004 and South Sudan since its independence in 2011. From January to August this year alone, NRC had provided humanitarian assistance to over 658,000 people across the country. This includes over 58,000 children and youth who have participated in NRC-supported education programmes, over 414,000 people who have received food security support, and about 160,000 people who have received shelter and household items. Posted in: Home - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/20122/Default.aspx#sthash.4DDEWiC5.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opuQHYOgVz__J77p3Ow%3DTAS4G5ZCV-syTVv-rbWpQgfbg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
