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UN appeals for $1.27 billion for shattered South Sudan | |
2014-02-05 | |
The United Nations issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for 1.27 billion dollars for aid for South Sudan, hit by a seven-week-old conflict that has forced close to a million people from their homes.
Describing the impact of the fighting as “devastating”, he said there were 3.2 million people suffering the humanitarian consequences, including 900,000 people who have been forced to abandon their homes and thousands more wounded. “Livelihoods have been lost, and people’s ability to move livestock to pasture, to fish or to hunt, has been severely compromised,” he said. “I ask the international donor community to stand with the people of South Sudan and the aid agencies working here to help them before the situation gets even worse,” Lanzer added. Fighting broke out in South Sudan on December 15 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those allied to ousted vice-president Riek Machar, and quickly spread throughout the country. Entire towns have been destroyed in the violence, with aid agencies and analysts estimating that close to 10,000 people have lost their lives in little more than a month. The government and rebels signed a ceasefire agreement in neighbouring Ethiopia on January 23, but sporadic fighting has continued to rage. The work of aid agencies has been complicated by widespread looting of humanitarian supplies by both sides in the conflict. On Monday Unicef said it was “extremely concerned” after government soldiers were pictured carrying bright-blue backpacks that were supposed to be destined for children but had been looted from a UN store. Vehicles, food stockpiles and medicines have also been looted from organisations including the International Committee of the Red | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#1 Seve Whiyte. South Sudanese are anti-Arab and displayed American and Israeli flags when they reached independence. Instead of telling potential alies to go f.. themlselves you should tell something like "Take this 1,27 billion from the billions you squander on those well fed people who squander our money in, shooting Kassams at theiur neigbours and have been doing so for sixty six years without ever trying to get a job" |
Posted by: JFM 2014-02-05 05:00 |