South Sudan said it required 358 million U.S. dollars to respond to the influx of people displaced as a result of the deadly clashes in Sudan.
Nearly 300,000 people have been displaced into South Sudan since the deadly clashes that erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to Albino Akol, minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management.
Akol warned that the number might increase to half a million people who will urgently need humanitarian support.
He said the government and humanitarian agencies set up a humanitarian pool when the crisis in Sudan started in mid-April to respond to the needs and the costs of operation.
“In the first three months, we realised that the operation (humanitarian response) would require 96 million dollars to be contributed by both partners and the government.
“But when we reviewed the plans recently, we realised that the operation would require up to 358 million dollars to respond to the crisis by the end of the year,” he told journalists in the capital of Juba.
The minister said the influx of displaced persons as a result of the Sudan crisis further compounded the existing humanitarian catastrophe the country was already going through in which 9.4 million people were already in need of humanitarian aid.
This is including 300,000 returnees who had voluntarily returned home from neighboring Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia as a result of relative peace. (Xinhua/NAN). READ ALSO:
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