Residents in the Angany internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Twic County, Warrap State complained of food shortages on Sunday.
Many of the people there have not received food rations in May and June because they were not verified as IDPs by the appropriate agencies, said camp representative Mary Aluel.
Aluel told Radio Tamazuj that a recent drive by the Twic County Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) to verify IDPs for food distribution left people uncounted because it was held early in the morning, before many of the camp’s residents arrived.
“Most of us don’t sleep here in the camp because there is no police and we are being threatened at night by unknown groups,” she said.
Aluel said that she raised the IDPs’ concerns with authorities but has not received a response.
“People are really suffering and this will cause death,” she said.
Yor Abraham from the Twic County RRC dismissed the allegations, saying that anyone present at the verification drive received food.
He said NGOs in the camp have the power to verify IDPs to receive food by reporting them to the protection cluster and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In Twic County there are four IDP camps at Manangui, Wunrok, Menhawan, Angany.