UN says S Sudan humanitarian situation to worsen
Coletta Wanjohi
Press TV, Addis Ababa
The South Sudan conflict that begun in December 2013, has so far claimed over 10,000 people’s lives, according to humanitarian reports. For now 1.5 million people have been internally displaced and more than 2.5 million people are in need of urgent food.
However, the United Nations Office for coordination of humanitarian affairs, UN OCHA, warns that this situation is bound to get worse as fighting continues between the government of South Sudan and the rebel faction led by former vice president Riek Machar.
Humanitarian access into South Sudan continues to be hampered by failure of the government and the rebel faction to respect the cessation of hostilities agreement they signed in January 2013. In addition the killing of humanitarian aid workers over time has become discouraging.
According to the UN agency compared to other humanitarian situations in areas like Central African Republic, Syria and Yemen, the South Sudan conflict has strained so much humanitarian response within a very short period of just over a year.
Even as the South Sudan warring parties are locked up in negotiations in Addis Ababa, currently, UN OCHA says that even if peace is reached it will be the beginning of more work. This is because there will be need to reconstruct the physical damage that has been caused by the conflict, in addition to repairing the social fabric that has been destroyed.
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