The International Organization for Migration says that it has launched relief work at the ADRA compound and UNMISS Tomping base where thousands of people have fled fighting elsewhere in Juba seeking shelter.
IOM told Radio Tamazuj today that it has a “core team” remaining in Juba that is assessing needs, providing aid and participating in humanitarian response coordination. The group is leading the coordination of aid at the UNMISS Tomping base in the role of camp manager.
Tomping was used as a protection site by the UN Mission in 2014 but had been closed in favor of the larger UN House protection sites on the western side of the city until conflict this past weekend forced thousands to once again flee to the base, which is near the Juba airport.
IOM is also delivering medical supplies to the ADRA compound, where an existing private-public clinic is providing health care to the displaced population sheltering at the compound.
“IOM is also setting a mobile health care clinic at the UNMISS Tomping base to support the population who fled there. IOM is registering IDPs at Tomping for shelter and NFI assistance,” the organization’s South Sudan office explained.
So far the Juba crisis has not affected IOM’s work elsewhere in South Sudan, the group said: “We remain operational as normal in Bentiu, Malakal, Renk, Melut, Wau and Bor, as well as other locations.”
Photo: IDPs at the Tomping base, July 2016