The Commissioner of Pochalla North County Okidi Omot says that the population of his county lacks food and drugs. The county is part of the proposed Boma State near the Ethiopian border.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Omot said the situation is dire amid absence of humanitarian organizations working in the health sector.

He pointed that the only organization that was working in the area left since last month which he said exacerbated the suffering of the people.

Omot added that prices of consumer goods skyrocketed, reporting that the price of a sack of sugar rose to 3500 SSP, while a jerrycan of cooking oil 10 liters rose to 500 SSP.

The commissioner attributed the rise in price of consumer goods to the deteriorating economic situation in the country besides the scarcity of hard currency to import goods from neighboring Ethiopia. 

File photo: Displaced people at a food distribution in Fangak, 2015