00:01Last week, South Sudanese authorities called on NGOs and UN troops to evacuate Akobo ahead of an imminent military assault.
00:10Now the army says it's recaptured the city and is calling on humanitarian organizations to return.
00:17Akobo is safe, the surrounding areas are safe, and therefore they should start turning back to Akobo within the shortest
00:25time possible.
00:26Since the collapse of a fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Rik Mashar in December,
00:35fighting has resumed in South Sudan.
00:38In the past three months, over 280,000 people have been displaced by the violence and are now in urgent
00:45need of humanitarian aid.
00:47The crisis has also been exacerbated by the near-total collapse of the country's health system.
00:52In Juba, the military hospital, which is almost entirely funded by foreign donors, is one of the few functioning health
01:00facilities remaining in South Sudan.
01:03This wing, which is managed by the Red Cross, now exclusively treats severe injuries and gunshot wounds, with patients getting
01:11caught in an endless cycle of war.
01:13We treat them here, they get better. When they go back home, I think there's a lot of things that
01:18happen.
01:19Either stigmatization, stress, or an act of wanting to do vengeance.
01:25So they go back again for the same fighting, or they want to revenge, and then again they get shot.
01:31I've actually had one patient who came back about four times.
01:34The United Nations recently warned South Sudan was on the brink of another full-blown civil war, eight years after
01:42the end of the previous conflict, which claimed over 400,000 lives.
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