Keywe levels4/3/2023 ![]() ![]() The negative impacts of the 2022 floods – which affected over 1 million people in 36 counties – continue to be felt across South Sudan as floodwaters are slow to recede. There are concerns that the road blockade will remain in place – as was the case in 2022 – and negatively affect trade flows and staple food prices. Finally, the southern migration of Messeriya pastoralists risks inflaming tensions again, and an attack on January 14 already prompted authorities to close the Aweil-Meiram road. In Abyei and Twic county, a series of retaliatory attacks were reported in early to mid-January and involved the deaths of several aid workers. In Upper Nile, fights over the Kilo Ashar disputed area broke out again in mid-January between Mabanese and Nyiel Dinka from Melut. Recent reports suggest the cattle herders have started migrating to Lainya County, and the likelihood of more clashes remains high. In Central Equatoria, recent clashes between Dinka Bor cattle herders and farming communities have led to deaths, property destruction, the killing of 400 cattle, and the displacement of more than 400 families from several bomas in Mangalla to Jabel Ladu Payam. Intermittent and volatile patterns of conflict also remain key drivers of acute food insecurity elsewhere in South Sudan. There are reports of further retaliatory attacks in Uror and Nyirol counties of Jonglei, causing displacement and raising concern that volatile conditions will continue to contribute to acute food insecurity across the southern Jonglei counties and GPAA in the near term. In addition, there are reports that armed clashes in Manyabol and Lokoromach villages of Lekuangole payam persisted into mid-January. ![]() According to a Nutrition Cluster update, 17,000 people were displaced to Vertheth and Pibor Town, and four nutrition facilities in Manyabol, Vuveth, Molokthoch, and Gumuruk burned down. In Pibor, fighting started around Nanam village and spread to Kongor (Namaru village) in Lekuangole and Gumuruk payams, displacing an estimated 30,000 people and killing 56 people, with extensive destruction of facilities and houses and looting of household assets. Of additional high concern is the recent escalation of inter-communal violence between the heavily armed youth from the Lou Nuer/Dinka and Murle communities from late December into January. In Fangak and Canal/Pigi in northern Jonglei, the armed clashes that occurred between the white army and combined SSPDF and Agwelek forces along the Malakal-Fangak-Canal/Pigi border region in December continue to affect local civilians, who lost assets and face reduced access to food and income sources due to the disruption of livelihood activities, trade, and humanitarian access. As of January 10, around 22,000 IDPs remained in Kodok Town and at the UNMISS compound. Meanwhile, the fighting along the western bank of the River Nile has displaced 19,000 people from Panyikang to Malakal, over 20,000 people to Kodok Town, and 5,000 people to Melut County. In Upper Nile and northern Jonglei, the surge in armed attacks in December by the white army on civilians and IDP camps in the Akedid area of Kodok Payam in Fashoda of Upper Nile displaced an additional 40,000 people, according to the UN. FEWS NET and partners are working to collect additional information to verify and better understand the proximate causes of these deaths.ĭespite continuing efforts to implement the peace process, such as the graduation of the necessary unified forces and charting a path forward for elections in 2024, conflict and insecurity continue to threaten lives and livelihoods in multiple areas. Additionally, local authorities have reported several hunger-related deaths in Panyijiar County of Unity, indicating that protracted hunger and malnutrition among hard-to-reach households is taking a severe toll despite food assistance deliveries to Nyal and Ganyiel payams in January. While efforts are underway to scale up food assistance deliveries to these areas, there have yet to be considerable improvements in livelihood activities, market functioning, or physical access constraints. The areas of highest concern include Fangak, Canal/Pigi, and Akobo counties of Jonglei Pibor County in Greater Pibor Administrative Area Mayendit and Leer counties of Unity and Fashoda and Panyikang counties of Upper Nile, where the population in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) is very high, and some households are likely still in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). South Sudan continues to face very high levels of acute food insecurity indicative of Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse outcomes, with Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes persisting in the worst conflict- and/or flood-affected areas. ![]()
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