UN Mission in South Sudan builds new base to protect civilians
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said Friday it's constructing a new temporary base in the Tambura region in South Sudan.
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00:00The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, also known as UNMI, said Friday it's constructing a new temporary base in the Tambora region in South Sudan.
00:12The mission said that since 2021, when recurrent intercommunal violence in the greater Tambora region escalated, numerous lives have been lost and thousands of people have fled their homes.
00:23We don't understand the origin of this conflict. We have lived in this camp for about six years with hunger and suffering.
00:36Our makeshift shelters are in bad shape. The rainy season has made things worse. Now we sleep on rainwater. We cannot farm because we fear being attacked.
00:47We urge the government and partners to look into our situation.
00:56We cannot leave the camp. We can sleep because the UNMI's peacekeepers patrol the area at night.
01:03If they were not here, we don't know whether we would even have been able to sleep.
01:08To better protect them, the peacekeepers serving within the mission have increased their presence and intensified vehicle patrols.
01:16According to UNMI's, South Sudan has struggled to recover from a civil war that broke out after independence and which killed nearly 400,000 people.
01:25This signifies a lot because we have a lot of resources and positioning ourselves in that new TOD to do more patrols on the ground and to do more engagement and to facilitate peace mediation and peace processes on the ground.
01:43The oil-rich country is blocked by corruption and relies on international aid to help feed its 11 million people, a challenge that has only grown since the Trump administration made sweeping cuts to foreign assistance.
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