About 30,000 people have fled violence between armed groups in South Sudan | Abroad

South Sudan is the youngest country in the world. Since its independence in 2011, the country has been subject to political and ethnic violence and chronic instability. Clashes between armed groups, which began on December 24, have already forced more than 30,000 people, including women and children, to flee to the Grand Pibor administrative region, OCHA said. The Bureau also reported “cattle theft” and “destruction of property”.

“The people have suffered enough. Citizens – especially the most vulnerable, women, children, elderly people and people with disabilities – bear the burden of this ongoing crisis on their shoulders,” said Sara Beysolow Nyanti, Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations in Southern Sudan. “This violence must stop.”

On December 14, Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at least 166 people had been killed and 237 injured in fighting between armed militias in the state of Upper Nile in four months. According to the United Nations, approximately 9.4 million people in South Sudan will be in need of humanitarian aid by 2023. A total of 11.4 million people live in the country. About 2.2 million people cannot return home because of “continued violence”.

In South Sudan, a civil war is raging between sworn enemies Riek Machar and Salva Kiir. Between 2013 and 2018, nearly 400,000 people lost their lives in that war. Millions of people are displaced. A peace deal signed in 2018 provides in principle for power-sharing in a government of national unity, but remains largely unimplemented.

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