IOM Regional Response to South Sudan Crisis SITUATION REPORT
EXTERNAL SITREP
20 – 26 June 2014
Refugees board a bus at Nadapal border point © IOM 2014 (Photo: Joseph Kabiru)
HIGHLIGHTS
OVERVIEW The security situation in South Sudan remains unpredictable and volatile. Skirmishes in Renk and Nassir, Upper Nile State have been reported during the course of the week. On 20 June, heavy shooting with artillery firing was observed from the Bentiu UNMISS base. Since the Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak on 15 May in Juba, a total of 1,846 cholera cases including 39 deaths have been reported as of 19 June. The case fatality rate is above emergency threshold levels by 2.1%. So far, the epidemic is active in Central Equatoria, while some cases have also been confirmed in Upper Nile and Western Equatorial states.
South Sudan: IOM vaccinated 179 children under five years of age at Bentiu PoC.
Uganda: 115,580 South Sudanese refugees have entered the country since the onset of the crisis
Kenya: Refugees forced to do odd jobs on their way to Kenya to raise funds to hire transport.
Ethiopia: IOM has relocated a total of 134,558 refugees to Pugnido, Leitchuor, Bonga, Kule I and Kule II refugee camps as of 24 June
since the onset of the crisis (Source: UNHCR 20 June) and IOM has tracked and registered a total of 41,958 people arriving from South Sudan.
OCHA estimates that 1.1 million South Sudanese have been internally displaced including approximately 100,000 people sheltering in UN bases across the country. In addition, since the onset of the crisis, 389,531 South Sudanese have fled to Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda (Source: UNHCR sitrep, 25 June).
Between 20 and 26 June, an average of 94 South Sudanese refugees entered South Sudan daily compared to last week’s average of 88 refugees.
In Uganda, an average of 671 refugees arrived during the reporting period, mainly through Nimule and Koboko border points; 65 per cent of the arriving refugees were children. 115,580 South Sudanese refugees have entered the country since the onset of the crisis in December 2013. (Source: UNHCR sitrep, 20 June).
In Ethiopia, 147,040 South Sudanese refugees have entered the country since the outbreak of violence in December 2013 (Source: UNHCR Sitrep 20 June) As of 24 June, IOM has relocated a total of 134,558 refugees to Pugnido, Leitchuor, Bonga, Kule I and Kule ii camps.
In Kenya, since the onset of the crisis, 38,806 South Sudan refugees have entered the country (Source: UNHCR Sitrep, 16-20 June). During this reporting period, IOM transported 432 refugees to Kakuma Refugee Camp, compared to 302 refugees transported in the previous week. In Sudan, 85,705 South Sudanese refugees have entered
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