The United Nation on Wednesday said the three year long war in South Sudan has left some 82 aid workers dead. A total of 3.5 million South Sudanese have also been displaced by the civil war.
According to the UN’s resident and humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Eugene Owusu, these aid workers were killed in the war since 2013.
The conflict started in December of 2013 when relations between current President Salva Kiir and his rival then-vice president, Riek Machar deteriorated.
Despite a peace accord signed in 2015 as part of efforts to resolve their political difference, the violence further exploded last year plunging the country into server humanitarian crisis.
Scores of South Sudanese are fleeing their country in search of food and safety.
The UN official, Eugene Owusu is quoted by Reuters to have said that humanitarian workers were “harassed across the country and humanitarian compounds and supplies have been looted and vandalised”.
The violence in South Sudan is primarily ethnic in nature and has its historical sources to a rivalry between President Salva Kiir’s Dinka community, and former vice president Riek Machar’s Nuer community.
Source: Africafeeds.com
