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Unrest in Kapoeta leaves displaced and injured

STORYLINE In a dingy hospital ward in Kapoeta, in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region, lie three severely injured young men from the Jie community. They sustained injuries following clashes between them and another local tribe, the Murle, in early October. The hospital is stretched for resources – a common occurrence in South Sudan, where a five-year civil war has crippled health infrastructures. While much of the fighting in South Sudan erupts between government and opposition forces, more localized intercommunal conflicts between rivaling tribes like the Murle and Jie are also taking a human toll. Some 3,500 members of the Jie tribe – mostly women and children – have now been displaced to Kapoeta’s Kassengor village following an attack and cattle raid carried out by the Murle of neighboring Boma area last July. They have been surviving for months without regular access to basic resources such as food, water, and medicine. Fresh clashes between these two tribes earlier this month have only exacerbated the circumstances. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan arrived in Kapoeta last week and attempted to reach Kassengor to assess the humanitarian and security situation. But poor road conditions forced the team to turn around. The country’s lack of road infrastructure, especially during the rainy months from March through October, poses logistical challenges to the mission’s operations and humanitarian partners. Meanwhile reports coming from Kassengor indicate that water shortages have hit the community, with the thousands of people displaced there depending on only two functional boreholes. SOUNDBITE: KAPOETA STATE GOVERNOR LOUISE LOBONG LOJORE "They are facing challenges of water, or lack of water, or shortage of water. I have been appealing to the partners to assist…." People are struggling drinking dirty water that has been used for flushing and on the ground together with mud, they are actually even drinking muddy water Despite the challenges, the mission will keep pushing forward to access remote locations such as Kassengor to help the people of South Sudan. UNMISS intends to facilitate a peace a dialogue between the Murle and Jie in the near future to foster the peace and reconciliation process. Images of Displaced: Credit to Save the Children