Egypt has donated medical supplies to support South Sudanese affected by last year’s floods, said Manasseh Lomole Waya, Chairperson of Relief and Rehabilitation Commission.
‘This medical donation from the Arab Republic of Egypt has come at a right time because a lot of people are having the after flood impacts, many diseases have affected them and that why this assistance is at the right time’, he noted.
Lomole told the media at Juba airport that ‘we are also receiving people who are returning from the neighbouring countries as a result of peace which has been achieved in South Sudan’.
‘This quantity that has been received is 14.2 metric tons and we have also been assured that more support will be offered by the Egyptian government to the people of South Sudan to alleviate suffering’
Last year, President Salva Kiir declared a state of emergency in sixteen areas of Upper Nile, seven in Bahr-el-Ghazal and four in Equatoria region.
Weeks after the floods, the Norwegian government allocated about three million US dollars to support displaced South Sudanese.
The money was channeled through humanitarian organizations operating in the country.