CIVILIANS IN STRIFE-TORN SOUTH SUDAN FLEEING TO UN BASES NOW NUMBER 63, 000

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Date: 27 Dec 2013 15:00:00 -0500
Subject: CIVILIANS IN STRIFE-TORN SOUTH SUDAN FLEEING TO UN BASES NOW
NUMBER 63, 000
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CIVILIANS IN STRIFE-TORN SOUTH SUDAN FLEEING TO UN BASES NOW NUMBER
63,000New York, Dec 27 2013 3:00PMSome 63,000 civilians have now
sought refuge in United Nations bases in South Sudan as the UN
peacekeeping mission there moves to reinforce its strength with troops
and helicopters in the face of a conflict that has killed thousands
and driven at least 122,000 others from their homes in the past 12
days.
"Priorities for the response to the displaced are food, healthcare,
shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene services, protection and camp
management," the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported today,
noting that aid agencies will need $166 million to respond to
immediate needs until March. "Additional air assets and transport
support are needed to enable the response."
UNMISS said heavy fighting raged between Government and rebel forces
in Jonglei and Upper Nile states over the past three days. On Tuesday
the Government said it had regained control of Bor, in Jonglei state.
"Since then, there has reportedly been no fighting in the town itself,
though clashes continue in the surrounding areas," UNMISS reported.
Heavy fighting was also reported yesterday in Malakal in Upper Nile
state while Juba, the national capital, remained calm but tense.
Tensions within South Sudan, the world's youngest country which only
gained independence in 2011 after seceding from Sudan, burst out into
open conflict on 15 December when President Salva Kiir's Government
said soldiers loyal to former deputy president Riek Machar, dismissed
in July, launched an attempted coup. Mr. Kiir belongs to the Dinka
ethnic group and Mr. Machar to the Lou Nuer. The conflict has been
increasingly marked by reports of ethnically targeted violence.
The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is working with
other peacekeeping missions in the region, as well as troop and police
contributing countries, to quickly move troops and equipment,
especially helicopters, into South Sudan to strengthen the protection
of civilians. Yesterday Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special
Representative in South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, said she hoped to have
the first reinforcements on the ground within 48 hours.
On Tuesday the Security Council authorized almost doubling UNMISS
peacekeepers to nearly 14,000 personnel through the transfer of units
if necessary from UN forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), Darfur, Abyei, Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia.
Though the number of people killed in the clashes is unknown,
thousands are likely to have lost their lives since the crisis
started, UNMISS said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
reported that that at least 121,600 people have been displaced and
humanitarian organizations say the figure is expected to be higher.
"A top priority for humanitarian agencies is to re-enter areas
currently inaccessible due to insecurity, and gather more information
about needs of people displaced outside main population centres,"
UNMISS said.

OCHA said aid agencies have delivered food to thousands of people in
Juba, Bentiu, Malakal and Awerial, but have not been able to access
the relief warehouse in Bor due to insecurity, and reports indicate
that it may have been looted.
Mobile clinics operating in UN facilities in Juba, where 25,000
civilians have sought refuge, are carrying out 350 consultations per
day, and measles and polio vaccination campaigns are scheduled to
begin before the New Year. Aid organisations have distributed mosquito
nets, mattresses, tents and soap to displaced families and have set up
160 latrines at displacement sites in Juba.
The main concern remains sanitation as well as hygiene and the risk of
disease outbreaks, such as cholera. "All actors are fully focused on
minimizing this risk, by improving the public health situation,"
UNMISS said.
In Bor, where 15,000 civilians have sought shelter, conditions are
"very challenging, especially in terms of health and water and
sanitation," it added. "There are few latrines within the site, and
limited access to clean water. There are also urgent needs for food
and shelter supplies."
In Bentiu in Unity state, some 8,000 people are sheltering inside the
UN base. "Public health is the main concern, with three cases of
measles reported, and top priorities for response are health supplies
and blankets to protect people from the cold during night," the
mission reported.
In Upper Nile state, 12,000 people are sheltering in the UN
peacekeeping base, and several civilians inside the base were injured
by stray bullets during clashes.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ban continues to contact leaders around the world to
discuss the crisis. Yesterday President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn visited Juba in a bid to
broker a peace.
UNMISS is investigating numerous reports of massacres, extra-judicial
killings, arbitrary detentions, mistreatment, abuses and mass rapes,
and Ms. Johnson has stressed that it is essential that all
perpetrators be held accountable.Dec 27 2013 3:00PM
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