Refugee Crisis in South Sudan
December 28, 2011
Refugee camp in the Village of Doro in Maban County in South Sudan's Upper Nile State.
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders is reporting a refugee crisis in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. It says 60 thousand people have fled fighting just across the border in Sudan.
The group, also known as MSF, says more than 30,000 of the refugees are in a camp in the village of Doro in Upper Nile State. That’s about 50 kilometers or so from the border. The rest are in Il Fug, which is just four kilometers from the border. They escaped fighting between government forces and the rebel SPLA North.
Bad and getting worse
“The influx is not stopping. Every day, we see people arriving on camels, by foot, on donkey carts, by trucks. Whatever they have. They arrive every day, with some peaks up to more than 1,000 per day,” said Jean Pierre Amigo, MSF field coordinator in Maban County, who spoke by satellite phone about the situation.
While humanitarian access to Doro is relatively easy, that’s not the case for Il Fug.
“The road is very, very bad. That’s the major problem. And then it’s also a question of security as it is not normal to have such a concentration of refugees so near to the border. And the proximity of the border may give risks to them,” he said.
An MSF medical team recently spent three days in Il Fug and conducted 700 examinations.
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