More than 100 people who fled from Jur River County in Western Bahr al-Ghazal State to Bar Mayen in Aweil Center County of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal are lacking food and medicines.

The displacement is believed to have begun with a domestic dispute involving an adultery case, resulting in the killing of one person. Jur River county police have arrested the suspected killer and are holding him in custody.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Aweil center county commissioner Arkangelo Uuc Decaak explained in detail. ''We the authority of Aweil Center have received 115 IDPs from Nimra Khamsa Payam to Bar Mayen Payam. These IDPs are only women with children.”

“We have accommodated them but lack support for them, especially support like clothing because most of them left their houses without anything. Some houses were burnt down, so they left without carrying food and that is why I say we have no any support and as the government, we have given them temporary accommodation,” he added.

According to the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal State Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, the commission has reported this case to UN agencies and NGOs concerned with humanitarian assistance, but so far the IDPs have been given only blankets.

The host communities are saying that little that they had is getting finished as they share it with the fellow citizens. Abuk Clement Uguak, a member of the host community in Bar Mayen Payam, said that she feared that there might be disease outbreaks because of crowding in compounds, with more than 30 people share one household in the midst of the rainy season with a lot of water everywhere.

Radio Tamazuj could not reach Jur River County authorities for comment.

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