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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / TAMBURA DISPLACED POPULATION
TRT: 04:08
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 07 JULY 2025, TAMBURA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, IDP camp
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Elizabeth Kizito, Displaced Person:
"I don’t sleep at night because I don’t know the whereabouts of my children. I am staying here alone. Some of my children are in Ezo and Yambio. I am just here alone. I am even afraid to bring my children here because they might be killed. We are all crying that God should bring us peace so we can live happily once again."
3. Various shots, IDP camp
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Liliana Galo, Displaced Person: “All our food in the farm was burnt. We don’t have food, and I am here, left alone with six children, without a father. It’s not safe to go and check on the farms, you might be killed and not return. If you are found, as a woman, you will be killed. If you are found pregnant, they will kill you and remove the child. We are afraid to go out and look for food.”
5. Various shots, IDP camp
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jacklin Amos, Displaced Person:
"This issue of tribalism has brought us suffering. When there is a tribal conflict, brothers are killed, sisters are killed. I am crying to them, please stop this conflict. People should be united."
7. Various shots, IDP camp
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Annmary Kathomi Miriti, Military Observer, United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS:
“We discussed the security measures they need to take among themselves first, as individuals and as a camp at large, and, as UNMISS, where we have our force protection based in Tambura who can always come and respond to their issues. Whenever they call, the forces are always ready to come and respond. That is the role of UNMISS that we play in ensuring the place is safe and secure. On top of that, we also do sensitization on one of the pillars, where we advocate on ending sexual violence, which is used as a weapon of war, which has been constantly used here, affecting women, girls, men and boys and the elderly who are the vulnerable to this act.”
9. Various shots, IDP camp
These makeshift tents are home to Elizabeth Kizito and thousands of other displaced families who fled the brutal intercommunal conflict that erupted in Tambura, Western Equatoria, in 2021. She and two relatives remain in the camp while her children are scattered between her hometown and other villages in the neighboring counties of Ezo and Yambio.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Elizabeth Kizito, Displaced Person:
"I don’t sleep at night because I don’t know the whereabouts of my children. I am staying here alone. Some of my children are in Ezo and Yambio. I am just here alone. I am even afraid to bring my children here because they might be killed. We are all crying that God should bring us peace so we can live happily once again."
With the stress showing on her face, 26-year-old, Lilian Galo, describes how she narrowly escaped being raped and killed while running from the violence. The mother-of-five says the whereabouts of her husband is still unknown.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Liliana Galo, Displaced Person: “All our food in the farm was burnt. We don’t have food, and I am here, left alone with six children, without a father. It’s not safe to go and check on the farms, you might be killed and not return. If you are found, as a woman, you will be killed. If you are found pregnant, they will kill you and remove the child. We are afraid to go out and look for food.”
5. Various shots, IDP camp
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jacklin Amos, Displaced Person:
"This issue of tribalism has brought us suffering. When there is a tribal conflict, brothers are killed, sisters are killed. I am crying to them, please stop this conflict. People should be united."
The camp is one of five locations where displaced families are seeking sanctuary. Through the collective efforts of local authorities and the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the area is regularly patrolled to provide security. UNMISS peacekeepers also regularly meet with the communities to hear and respond to their needs.
SOUNDBITE (English) Annmary Kathomi Miriti, Military Observer, United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS:
“We discussed the security measures they need to take among themselves first, as individuals and as a camp at large, and, as UNMISS, where we have our force protection based in Tambura who can always come and respond to their issues. Whenever they call, the forces are always ready to come and respond. That is the role of UNMISS that we play in ensuring the place is safe and secure. On top of that, we also do sensitization on one of the pillars, where we advocate on ending sexual violence, which is used as a weapon of war, which has been constantly used here, affecting women, girls, men and boys and the elderly who are the vulnerable to this act.”
Despite many challenges, UNMISS continues to support all efforts to restore calm, peace and stability, so that families torn apart by conflict can live safely together again.
