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Returnees in Longechuk County, Upper Nile State, are facing severe shortages of food and shelter, highlighting a critical humanitarian situation for thousands who recently arrived from Sudan and Ethiopia to escape insecurity.
Four local youth who were involved in a skirmish with a group of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) soldiers at an airstrip in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State on Tuesday have been apprehended.
More than 7, 000 returnees who have arrived in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State from refugee camps since late last year are suffering and lack food and social services, local officials said.
The 12-year-old girl who killed her father over unmet Christmas demands in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State on December 12 last year has been transferred to a refugee camp in neighboring Ethiopia.
The humanitarian situation in Longechuk County of South Sudan’s Upper Nile state is dire as the county remains cut off without basic services for months, officials and residents said.