Clashes resume in South Sudan’s Maban County

Fighting broke out again on Wednesday between the host community and Blue Nile refugees near Doro camp in Maban County in South Sudan’s Eastern Nile State, according to aid workers in the area.

Fighting broke out again on Wednesday between the host community and Blue Nile refugees near Doro camp in Maban County in South Sudan’s Eastern Nile State, according to aid workers in the area.

Alyona Synenko, spokesperson for the ICRC, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that clashes resumed near Doro camp in Maban area. She said yesterday. “There were still some clashes today, the clashes have been continuing, they have been on and off”.

She pointed out that they delivered about 300 kilograms of medical supplies to local medical clinics to help treatment the wounded people. “Now these local clinics are receiving the wounded, so I wouldn’t be able to tell you the exact number of the wounded, I can tell you about the ICRC, we have not been affected,” she said.

Alyona didn’t give further details about the clashes in the area.