South Sudan vows to adequately protect aid workers
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August 19, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudanese authorities have vowed to
protect aid workers and facilitate the transportation of humanitarian
supplies by providing adequate security to aid organizations.
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Part of an 18-truck WFP convoy crossing into South Sudan from Sudan,
carrying 700 metric tons of food, in Nov 2014 (WFP video screen
capture)
Speaking to reporters in the capital, Juba, humanitarian affairs and
disaster management minister, Hussein Mar Nyuot, acknowledged the
difficulties aid workers and organizations face while delivering help
to South Sudan.
"We in the government want to assure our partners that we stand for
firm cooperation, firm coordination and we want to ensure that aid
assistance that comes to our country is delivered to all our
vulnerable people anywhere they are,” said Nyuot.
All protocols governing aid workers will be adhered to, he added.
South Sudan has been experiencing violence since December 2013. More
than 80 aid workers, the United Nations says, have been killed since
violence broke out in South Sudan, which seceded from Sudan in 2011.
In a statement issued Friday, however, the humanitarian co-coordinator
in South Sudan, Serge Tissot, said attacks also put millions of South
Sudanese at risk amid the country’s civil war.
The world’s youngest nation has become one of the most dangerous
places for aid workers to operate, owing to reports that 15 aid
workers have died this year.
According to the world body attacks on aid workers include looting of
warehouses, trucks and the loss of tons of food aid.
The UN often requested South Sudan governments to protect aid workers
and allow them do their jobs without restrictions.
The South Sudanese humanitarian affairs minister said the government
has never imposed restriction for delivery of relief assistance and
movement of aid workers.
"We are not discriminating and the government doesn’t impede any
access of humanitarian delivery. We are neutral and we give
humanitarian access to anybody because these are our own people," he
further told reporters.
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20 August 11:17, by Kuch
The same damned *sleazy NGOs* who are being used by the evil
corporate America, the UK, their UN, their evil juus & some of their
evil allies in between; as *their neo-colonial creeps* to crawl their
evil selves into our country like they have done in other countries.
who says, this *Hussein Maar Nyuot* has anything to do with the
government of South Sudan?>>>
repondre message
20 August 11:48, by Kuch
the fool was a *minister in our then Jonglei state* but when
he was *retrenched for incompetence*, then *he came back from Juba
enraged* and helped started *his rubbish in my home state of Bor,
Jonglei* with his then *Peter Gadet madman & their Riek Machar
psychopath* This piece of shit called Hussein Maar Nyuot must be very
very careful>>>
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