The United Nations Special Advisor, Robert Piper expressed the need for peace as a foundation for long-term solutions to end displacement.
The senior UN official who visited South Sudan met with an internally displaced person in Juba and Wau.
Robert says seeing people stay at the camp in their own country is unfair and calls for the government to work for a sustainable solution.
“No one should have to live in a camp for so long. No children should live years with the uncertainty of not knowing where home is and not feeling safe.”
He adds there’s a need to move on quickly from displacement to finding and implementing durable solutions.
“We need to work differently and do better to make it possible to move on quickly from displacement to finding and implementing durable solutions.”
The United Nations Special Advisor of the Secretary-General met with senior government officials in Juba and Wau and urged the authorities to bring durable peace.
He says decades of conflict, subnational violence, and climate change are the main drivers of internal displacement in South Sudan.
UN reported that an estimated 2.2 internally displaced in South Sudan, many of whom have been displaced multiple times for years.
The diplomat’s mission in South Sudan was to examine the IDP situation and advocate for the operationalization of the Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement.
The Action Agenda is to better resolve, prevent and address internal displacement crises.
South Sudan is one of the sixteen UN Member States selected to pilot the Action Agenda.