Over 100.000 er på flugt fra måneders voldelige sammenstød i Afrikas nyeste nation, hvor heftig regn ikke gør situationen bedre – mange lever af blade og vilde bær ude i bushen af frygt for nye overgreb.
PIBOR (South Sudan), 28 August 2013 (IRIN): Tens of thousands of displaced people are still struggling to find food, water and access to shelter as they hide in the bush in South Sudan’s Jonglei State following clashes there in July.
While some have dared to return to the heavily militarized town of Pibor to look for food, others have remained in the bush where they are forced to survive on wild fruit and leaves.
In Pibor town aid agencies suspended food distributions on 18 August (after assisting 21.000 people there) because of what the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called “insecurity and abuses (overgreb)”.
Here around 1.000 people are waiting for aid to resume, according to local authorities.
The agencies are reviewing “operational constraints including guarantees of safety for both civilians receiving assistance and for the aid workers,” OCHA said.
Meanwhile, in the Jonglei town of Gumuruk, where some 10.000 people in need were registered earlier in August, food distributions were set to get off the ground on 29 August.
In Pibor, “people are suffering,” said Moses Ajak, a representative in the commissioner’s office.
Outside his window people are waiting in the yard, many without protection from the heavy rain.
They have already been hiding in the bush for weeks and then walked for days – some up to a week – to register for the food packages.
“During the night we host as many as we can in the commissioner’s office. Others are forced to sleep outside,” Moses Ajak said.
Over 100.000 displaced
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http://www.irinnews.org/report/98653/displaced-struggle-as-large-areas-remain-inaccessible-in-jonglei
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http://www.u-landsnyt.dk/nyhed/27-08-13/en-halv-million-ramt-af-oversv-mmelser-i-sudan
Mere om delstaten Jonglei på
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonglei
