SOUTH SUDAN Sleepless in South Sudan
Twenty plus years in the international aid business and I’ve never been in a situation like this before. The normal words – tragic, heart wrenching, outrageous – seem superficial.
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Aid Effort Claws its Way Forward Amid Mud and Uncertainty
BENTIU, South Sudan – “It is still tense here after last week’s heavy fighting, but there is some movement in the streets. The situation of the displaced people who are sheltering inside the UN compound is complicated by the sheer numbers of people…
CARE Staff Swing into Action at UN Compound Clinic Amid Fighting in Bentiu
BENTIU, South Sudan – CARE’s daily routine in Bentiu, South Sudan was interrupted by fighting this week, but project coordinator Rose Ejuru found plenty to do. She immediately changed roles, reverting to her medical training as a nurse to help tend…
Displaced in South Sudan at the Breaking Point
CARE Emergency Team Leader Alain Lapierre was recently in Upper Nile State’s UN compound in Malakal scaling up CARE’s water sanitation and hygiene response for people displaced by South Sudan’s internal conflict.
Desperate for Water in South Sudan
As violence continues in South Sudan, CARE is working to help families who have fled their homes. On February 18, opposition forces launched an attack on Upper Nile State’s capital, Malakal. The town had already been devastated by more than six weeks of…
Return To Jonglei
The small plane packed to capacity with people and medicine touched down in a cloud of dust and was immediately surrounded by people who had been almost completely cut off from the outside world by two months of conflict in the world’s newest nation.
CARE Providing Displaced People with Health Care and Nutrition Services
CARE Program Coordinator Benson Wakoli returned to battle-scarred Unity State in South Sudan during the last week of January to assess people’s needs and the condition of CARE’s health care facilities.
SOUTH SUDAN Amid South Sudan Violence CARE Helping Women and Girls at Risk
As armed conflict continues in South Sudan, CARE-supported clinics are helping people in desperate need of health care. Ayuen Jooh Luala, 25 years old and in labor with twins
SOUTH SUDAN CARE supported clinics remain open and provide essential health care despite escalating
The CARE-supported Primary Health Care Clinic in Twic East remains open despite the escalating violence which has spread to half of Sudan's ten states over the past weeks.