Aid groups urged to resume activities in Maiwut admin | July 31, 2017 | 3:13 pm ICRC vehicles in Maiwut County - 2016 | Photo | ICRC
The Governor of Maiwut State, Bol Ruach, has appealed to aid groups to resume operations in the area. Early this month, several humanitarian groups, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, suspended operations there due to fighting between the government and opposition forces. The ICRC had been providing medical services and life-saving assistance to people in the State. “The UN, the ICRC, and all the other organizations need to come back to the state. We need you to provide services to my people,” Governor Ruach said. The aid agency is yet to comment on the matter. The humanitarian organization started airlifting its staff and some patients during the first week of July to old Fangak in the former Jonglei State as a precautionary measure. It said the group would resume activities in the area as soon as the security situation improved. However, the governor says the government clashed with the opposition force and captured the town on Thursday last week. “We were engaged early in the morning of 27 and we defeated the opposition force; we captured the town, the capital of Maiwut state,” he stated. The opposition is yet to react to this report. -- 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/CAJb14opZGdBjzYDKK1-U-A6viicgEFjFwBTKPoB2T6y5NzS15g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
