About 619 people from South Sudan’s Raja and Bahr Al Arab areas have arrived in Alliet Locality in Sudan’s North Darfur State last week, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in its latest weekly humanitarian bulletin.

OCHA said the local NGO Community Development Organisation (CDO) reported the arrival of South Sudanese refugees in North Darfur, saying the new arrivals assembled in Dalil Babikir, Shag El Leyoun, Salaheldin, and Wad Balila.

The UN office pointed out that a medical team from the State Ministry of Health and CDO visited the refugees. They found that the refugees were in poor health, and identified 22 suspected measles cases.

The local organization carried out nutritional status screening of South Sudanese children and the result indicates high levels of malnutrition among 160 children under the age of five, according to the UN agency.

OCHA reported that following the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening, nine severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and 24 moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) cases were identified, indicating that one in five children screened were malnourished, and require therapeutic nutrition support.