Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Akoka County in South Sudan’s Upper Nile report acute shortages of food, shelter, and medicine, said the county commissioner.
Daniel Yor told Radio Tamazuj Tuesday that displaced households have run out of food rations distributed by aid agencies.
Akoka county accommodates hundreds of families who fled violence in other parts of Upper Nile since December last year.
“Poor roads have negatively affected the provision of medicines and the other life-saving supplies in the remote payams in the county,” Yor said.
He said the shortage of food and basic services will contribute toward the spread of diseases among children and women, and appealed to authorities to provide aid and medicine to displaced and host communities.
Humanitarian situation in Fashoda
In neighboring Fashoda County, thousands of displaced also face worsening humanitarian conditions owing to lack of food.
County Information Officer Matar El Sheikh told Radio Tamazuj that the displaced have run out of food and there is increasing malnutrition.
“The organizations operating in the area distributed food rations to the displaced in April, but now as I speak the displaced have run out of food” he said.
El Sheik said there are nearly 28,000 IDPs in Fashoda and there are cases of child malnutrition and other diseases caused by a lack of nutritious food.
El Sheik called on humanitarian and health organizations to expedite the provision of food and medicine before the situation deteriorates further.
File photo: A woman and her children in Kodok, Upper Nile, October 2013. They were part of a group of about 1400 Nuba refugees who came to the area from Kau Nyaro in neighboring Sudan before the latest crisis started in South Sudan (Radio Tamazuj)