May 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government of South Sudan has established a new refugee camp in the north of the country to house the growing number of people fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
The South Sudanese Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Albino Akol Atak, announced Monday that the authorities of the state of North Bar el Gazal have allocated land to open a new refugee camp, as reported by Radio Tamazuj.
Akol, who has detailed that thousands of asylum seekers have registered – the majority from the Sudanese region of Darfur – has indicated that he is coordinating with humanitarian partners to begin relocation to this new settlement.
The head of the portfolio has indicated that the settlement, “which is a very large area”, is close to the city of Uwail, the state capital. “Now we have directed our officials there, the Aid and Rehabilitation Commission and the Refugee Commission, to relocate these people,” he has indicated, referring to the people who are at the border.
However, since the conflict broke out, South Sudan has received 70,000 people, including Sudanese, Eritreans, Ugandans and Kenyans, the minister said. According to official data, more than 32,500 people have registered who have crossed the border from Sudan to South Sudan, the aforementioned radio station collects.
Hostilities in Sudan broke out on April 15 in the context of increased tensions over the integration of the RSF into the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition opened after the overthrow in 2019 of the then president, Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the coup in October 2021, in which the prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, was overthrown.
