The United Nations agencies revealed that over 9,000 people have been displaced by violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state.
Violence is no stranger to South Sudan since its independence from Sudan in 2011.
However, the South Sudan civil war is estimated to have claimed close to 400,000 lives since conflicts started in 2013.
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The war that is usually fought along ethnic lines is mostly caused by clashes over grazing areas, water, cultivation ground, and other resources.
The latest of these clashes is the continuation of a fight that started in August in a village in Upper Nile, spreading to other parts of the states.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in the latest episode of fighting in Fashoda Country that started in mid-November.
The UNOCHA statement said, “According to local responders at least 75% of the newly displaced are women and children, with many children separated from their caregivers.”
The UN agency is yet to confine the number of persons killed in the recent violence.
