00:01A stark warning from the United Nations aid chief.
00:05During the visit to a hospital in South Sudan,
00:08Tom Fletcher denounced what he referred to
00:10as the impact of cuts to aid in the war-torn country.
00:14Assalamu alaikum.
00:17Good.
00:22So we're in a Kobo not far from the fighting.
00:24There's been huge amounts of displacement here
00:27and in this hospital you're seeing the victims of that,
00:29survivors of gunshot wounds,
00:31a 70-year-old grandmother, a tiny child,
00:33Hal, who I hope will survive,
00:35but who's lost both his parents and his brothers and sisters.
00:39The majority of the fighting is concentrated in eastern Jonglei state
00:43where, according to the UN,
00:45some 280,000 people have been displaced since December.
00:50We've responded to the sudden influx of injured patients.
00:56that occurred with the recent increase in the fighting.
01:02The war has largely pitted the two main ethnic groups
01:05against one another.
01:06The Dinka, who mostly back President Kerr,
01:09and the newer mostly with Mashar.
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