While US announcing to pull-out more staff owing to the “deteriorating security situation”, the UN has called on all staff living in private residences and hotels in Juba to move to the protected UN bases.
The USA announced $49.8 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help victims of the conflict in South Sudan.
The new funding will go to the various UN agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Another $17.5 million will allow UN agencies to provide life-saving assistance to those affected by the violence, including emergency health care services, shelter, access to clean drinking water, hygiene and sanitation facilities, support reunification of families separated by the fighting, and transport life-saving relief to those in need, the USA announced.
The additional funding will help the UNHCR respond to the current crisis that has displaced an additional 180,000 South Sudanese since December 15, 2013 and led more than 15,000 to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. The Red Cross, is providing emergency assistance to South Sudanese victims of conflict in the capital, Juba, as well as other areas throughout the country. In response to the current crisis, the ICRC is also providing urgently needed medical support to hospitals treating the wounded.