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NORTHERN UGANDA - 10 Feb 2017

Nuba refugees at Moyo camp report lack of services

More than 30 Nuba refugees, mostly women children at Moyo refugee camp in northern Uganda have complained about shortages of basic services.

The Nuba refugees fled to Uganda after an attack carried out by armed groups on Lasu camp in South Sudan’s Yei River State in August 2016.

Abdel-baqi Suleiman, a refugee who stranded in Moyo camp, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday they arrived in the camp in early January after fleeing violence in Lasu camp near the Congolese border.

He pointed out that most of the children who were separated from their families following the attack on Lasu are currently living in the Moyo camp without clothes and shelter.

“We are not safe here, because we are few in number, and our situations is not good at all, if some organizations are able to collect us and take us to our brothers who are in Adjumini that will be good,” said Suleiman.

” Our number here is more than 30 people, the children who separated from their parents are many here and they need food and shelter,” he added.

The refugee noted that some humanitarian organizations in Moyo are providing some services, but they are not enough. He called on other aid agencies to assist them as soon as possible.

File photo: South Kordofan refugees/ UNHCR