The head of Khor Addar Internally Displaced Person’s camp for South Sudan’s Northern Upper Nile State says more than 20,000 people in and around the camp are in dire need of clean drinking water.
James Monsur speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Monday said the World Vision, an international aid organisation that has been providing them with water announced it would pull out this year, worsening an already bad humanitarian situation.
Monsur further revealed that cases of diarrhoea are on the rise in the camp as people scramble for stagnant water for drinking purposes. He appealed to aid organisations to visit the camp and provide the displaced with basic needs, especially clean drinking water.
The camp hosts thousands of IDPs who fled the conflict in 2013 from Baliet and Akoka areas of Central Upper Nile State.