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SOUTH SUDAN / KU'DA ASSESSMENT
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / KU'DA ASSESSMENT
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ARABIC/ NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2016, KUDA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, UN convoy and peacekeepers
2. Various shots, displaced people gathering at a meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Grace Kade, Displaced Kuda Resident:
“We are in the bush these days. We don’t stay in the town because we are afraid – and there we are suffering. There is no water to drink. There is no rain these days our children are tired drinking unhealthy water. We are even starving. The sorghum we cultivated are drying up due to lack of rain, we don’t know what to do all roads are blocked and our children are not going to school.”
4. Wide shot, assessment team walking through grown grass to homesteads
5. Various shots, burnt down area of house
6. Assessment team walking to abandoned homesteads and an area were more houses are destroyed
7. Various of a destroyed house
8. SOUNDBITE (Englis) Anne Schuit, UNMISS Civil Affairs Officer:
“They are not in the village at the moment. They are mostly in the bush too afraid to come back. They are faced with a lot of difficulties – including the lack of water, lack of food, lack of medicine, and they are fearing that government soldiers may come back again to cause insecurity.”
9. Various shots, closed shop with bullet hole on corrugated sheeting
10. Various shots, health facility after being plundered
Up to six thousand internally displaced people (IDP) are appealing for urgent humanitarian assistance in Ku'da, 45 kilometers west of Juba after a recent fighting between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and a group of armed men.
Displaced Kuda resident Grace Kade said “we are in the bush these days. We don’t stay in the town because we are afraid – and there we are suffering,” adding that they have no safe water, no food and children cannot go to school.
An assessment team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) visited the area over the weekend (24 Sep) to assess the humanitarian situation.
Speaking about the dire situation, UNMISS Civil Affairs Officer Anne Schuit said that people are afraid to return their homes and are mostly hiding in the bush. She added that “they are faced with a lot of difficulties – including the lack of water, lack of food, lack of medicine, and they are fearing that government soldiers may come back again to cause insecurity.”
The market and shops in the area were ruined and looted. The once busy primary health care center – also now lies in ruins and has been abandoned with no medical services available.
The assessment team will report back on the needs of communities in distress and hope to engage the humanitarian community to provide much needed support for the displaced in the area.
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