The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Thursday in Juba reviewed aid operations with a call for the ‘spotlighting’ need to protect civilians from violence in South Sudan.
Stephen O’Brien met President Salva Kiir and discussed humanitarian crisis, expressing the need for violence to stop for the sake of the people and the future of the country.
He also visited a UN civilian protection site in Juba, where some 20 thousand people shelter and spoke with a group of women in the UN protection site who shared stories of their suffering.
Mr O’Brien is on Friday visiting, Bentiu of Unity State, one of the hardest hit conflict areas.
UN refugee agency recently estimated that more than 730 thousand people fled into Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan and that another 1.5 million remain internally displaced in UN Mission in South Sudan.
Two weeks ago, the UN Security Council marked the fourth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence expressing profound disappointment in the country’s leaders for putting their personal ambitions ahead of the good of their nation and people.