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IOM South Sudan
SITREP # 31 29 July 2014
Jennifer Pro/IOM
SITUATION REPORT
A mother and child at the UNMISS Tongping PoC in Juba
OVERVIEW The security situation remains unpredictable and highly volatile, especially in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states. Reports of sporadic clashes and the mobilization of armed elements were reported in Nasir town (Upper Nile) and in parts of Jonglei.
HIGHLIGHTS
1,528 people received consultations and treatment this week at IOM clinics in Malakal PoC and Bentiu PoC 124 metric tonnes humanitarian cargo moved by CTS trucks from 22 July to 29 July
Over 1.1 million people remain internally displaced across the country and just over 434,000 people have fled the violence to neighbouring countries (Uganda 120,700, Kenya 42,400, Ethiopia 182,200 and Sudan 89,000). There are currently over 95,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering in seven UN bases across South Sudan.
Since the declaration of the cholera outbreak on 15 May, a total of 5,176 cholera cases including 115 deaths have been confirmed as of 27 July. The case fatality rate is 2.2%, which is above the emergency threshold of 1%. In Wau Shiluk, Upper Nile State, 876 cases have been confirmed including 17 deaths, while at Malakal PoC 60 cases including two deaths are confirmed.
Heavy rainfall has inundated shelters at the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu (Unity) and humanitarian actors are facing challenges especially with regards to sanitation. Camp management partners assisted people in the worst affected areas of the PoC to move into communal spaces in other parts of the PoC site. The hardest hit were PoC 2, 3 and 4.
The rainy season has increased the risk of disease across the country, including respiratory, water-borne and other communicable diseases. People in displacement sites are at the highest risk of disease transmission. The most commonly reported illnesses include pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections and malaria – representing 40 per cent of cases treated in the sites.