Map: No aid access in most of S. Sudan’s Unity state
Six of nine counties in Unity State have been rated as inaccessible by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with the state capital also rated as only “accessible with constraints” amid fears of another attack.
Almost the entire greater Upper Nile region – comprising the states Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile – is either inaccessible or difficult to reach.
That includes the frontline Duk County, where violence has displaced much of the population, as well as Bor County where two aid workers were killed on 17 April.
The UN says that 16% of people displaced by conflict are in open or rural settings in areas that are hard for humanitarians to access.
Many others are at easier to serve sites such as the UN bases in Central Equatoria or the calmer eastern part of Lakes state.
Some of the areas marked in brown on the map are not accessible by road, and increasingly even some areas also marked ‘accessible’ will only be accessible by air later in the rainy season.
Unity is the most heavily affected state; the displacement figure 242,600 is about 40% of the recorded population of 585,800, according to the 2008 census.
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