Hundreds of displaced people from Jur River County who are currently sheltering inside the Catholic Church at Nazareth area in Wau town are experiencing harsh humanitarian conditions due to shortages of food and shelter, a local official said.

Natalina Andea, Director of Peace and Justice Commission at Catholic Church in Wau, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the internally displaced persons who fled clashes between local farmers and pastoralists in Jur River County are now living in the open inside the Catholic Church in Wau.

She added that the displaced families are still facing acute shortages of food and shelter although they are receiving aid assistance from humanitarian organizations in Wau.

Natalina said yesterday. “Their situation is still the same, I went this morning to Nazareth Church, and I found many of them are still living in the open without shelter”.

“Nowadays in Wau, the weather is cold and they are receiving only few items for children. They did not receive any plastic sheets so that they can make tents, even those who are inside the Episcopal Church have nothing,” she added.

File photo: Young IDPs play in front of church buildings at the St. Mary Help of Christians Cathedral in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Dec. 8, 2016. (J. Craig/VOA)