The county commissioner of Tali in South Sudan’s Terekeka State says more than 9,000 returnees in the county are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

Angelo Maring told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday that the returnees who had fled violence in the past months lack food, drinking water and medicine.

He urged both national and international aid organisations in South Sudan to quickly come to the area to avert a humanitarian crisis.

Commissioner Maring also reiterated his call to the national government to investigate and provide medication to the mysterious disease affecting thousands of livestock in the state.