You’d forgotten there’s another war going on in South Sudan?
Location of South Sudan in Africa (darkened area). Wikipedia image
- Gumuruk is a village of about 10,000 people, swamped with refugees from the fighting – in Pibor County, South Sudan
- UN Peacekeepers struggle to keep 100,000 people in the area free from fighting between government and non-government forces; this is one of those missions the UN does every day that neo-cons and Tea Partisans ridicule
- WFP, the United Nations World Food Programme, is the largest humanitarian agency in the world (despite what the ads on the religious television stations may say)
- IDP means “internally displaced person,” or a refugee from war, natural disaster, or economic crisis, driven from their home, but still in their nation of residence; there are millions
More:
- S. Sudan: Japan gives WFP nearly $2m as food assistance (sudantribune.com)
- Syria: UN’s Mission Impossible in Syria (ionglobaltrends.com)
- Donkeys Don’t Fly on Planes (jesseducation.wordpress.com)
- South Sudan: food fears for thousands in Jonglei as violence intensifies (guardian.co.uk)
- South Sudan Negotiating $500 Million IMF Loan to Bolster Economy – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
- South Sudan: Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor (ionglobaltrends.com)
- Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor (voanews.com)
- 500,000 facing destruction and disease (theguardian.com)
- Fear, Flooding Keep People from Care in Pibor, South Sudan (doctorswithoutborders.org)
- Sudan Reverses Threat to Stop South Sudan Oil Flow (abcnews.go.com)
- More photos from UN agencies
Best flying of a U.S. flag: A woman carries a bag of food in Gumuruk where @WFP is assisting IDPs uprooted by violence.
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