Introduction

At around 5pm on 08 July, fighting erupted in Juba between members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the SPLA-In Opposition (IO). Over a period of four days, hundreds of people were killed, tens of thousands of people were displaced, and millions of dollars’ worth of humanitarian assistance was looted or destroyed. This Situation Update provides an overview of the first two weeks of the crisis and the protection impact on the civilian population.

Context and Chronology

The first week of July was marked by growing tensions between SPLA and IO troops. A series of small clashes and retaliatory attacks between the two groups finally led to an outbreak of hostilities on the evening of Thursday, 07 July at a checkpoint in the Gudele neighborhood in which at least five people were killed. The following day, heavy checkpoints were visible throughout the city, and at 5pm small arms fire erupted while President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar were delivering a press conference. The exact trigger for this Friday clash remains disputed, but almost immediately reports of violence began emerging from multiple locations around the city.

Saturday, 09 July was largely calm and staff of humanitarian organizations attempted to take stock of new displacement and immediate needs. New arrivals were noted at the UN House Protection of Civilians Sites (POCs) and the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Tomping, and UNMISS and humanitarians worked to try to accommodate them. On Sunday morning however, fighting resumed throughout Juba and continued until the evening of Monday, 11 July. Heavy artillery, as well as tanks and helicopter gunships were used in the fighting and caused significant harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.

Highlights

• The Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed the cholera outbreak.
  As of 25 July, a total of 294 suspected cholera cases including 17 deaths have been reported nationwide, with the majority reported in Juba County.

• Latrines in the UN House Protection of Civilian (POC) sites are filling up fast as a result of the regular rains; keeping up with desludging of the latrines is a key to maintain adequate sanitation.
  UNICEF is addressing it with intensified desludging work.

• UNICEF has completed construction of 40 stances of semipermanent latrines in the UNMISS Tomping site, having contributed to attain the Sphere Standards of one latrine for 50 people.

• Education activities have resumed in the UNMISS Tomping site, with 1,080 children registered and the number of temporary learning spaces (TLSs) and volunteer teachers has been increased to support the activities.

Humanitarian Overview

Cholera outbreak has been confirmed by MoH in Juba after 10 of the samples (77 per cent) tested positive for Vibrio Cholera Inaba in the National Public Health Laboratory. As of 25 July, a total of 294 suspected cholera cases including 17 deaths have been reported nationwide, with the majority reported in Juba County. An outbreak investigation team just returned from Terekeka on 25 July, where 12 cases and five deaths from suspected cholera infection have been reported. Stool samples were collected for culture test. Although there has been the cut off of radio communication from Duk, Jonglei for 10 days, a team managed to visit the location by boat from Bor, where 32 cases and four deaths have been reported. In addition, two cases in Maban and one case in Torit have been reported respectively. Rain is exacerbating the situation, undermining sanitation efforts and threatening to further the spread of cholera.

Humanitarian Response

A daily coordination meeting has been instituted by the MoH Cholera Task Force, with joint biweekly WASH and Health cluster meetings was instituted too. A mapping matrix has been developed to show who (which organization) does what activities where; gaps identified in affected areas will be shared to ensure coordinated responses.

Given the increase in number of cases with limited spaces at the Juba Teaching Hospital, the task force is to open additional cholera treatment centres (CTCs) in most affected locations in Juba. In the meantime, preparations are underway to open a rehabilitation and stabilization center at Al Sabah Children’s Hospital.

Statement to the Third Preparatory Committee of Habitat 3, given by Hugo Slim, Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

In an urbanizing world, armed conflict and violence are urbanizing too.

Cities like Aleppo and Fallujah are being destroyed. Their civilian populations are facing displacement, siege and impoverishment. In South Sudan, people in Juba, Wau, Bentiu and Leer are living in similarly desperate conditions.

Armed conflict and violence are major causes of development reversals in many towns, cities and informal settlements. Prospects for sustainable development in these urban areas are being pushed back by decades.

Millions of urban people living in protracted conflict and chronic urban violence are being left behind.

The ICRC is concerned that the impact of conflict and chronic urban violence is not yet receiving the attention it deserves in the New Urban Agenda.

We have made recommendations to States for Habitat 3, and are asking you to do three things as you negotiate in Surabaya.

First – please recommit to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law.

Conflicts are increasingly being fought in urban areas. We are tragically familiar with the severe humanitarian consequences of urban conflict in cities like Gaza, Homs, Mogadishu and Sanaa.

Habitat 3's concern for safety must apply to civilian populations in urban conflicts too.

Parties to conflict must distinguish between military and civilian objects in urban areas. Precautions must be taken in attack and defense, and the use of military force must be proportionate to the threat.

Explosive weapons that have wide area impact should be avoided in densely populated areas. Blast and fragments from these weapons can damage pipes and substations - depriving people of water and electricity for months.

Healthcare facilities, their patients and their staff need to be protected and not indiscriminately or deliberately attacked.

Urban designers have a responsibility to site military installations away from civilian objects, and avoid placing factories using dangerous substances close to schools and housing.

Secondly, States must commit to support resilient urban services in protracted conflicts.

Millions of people in towns, cities and informal settlements rely on interconnected infrastructure to meet their needs for essential electricity, water, sewerage and waste management. Without such systems, people's living conditions deteriorate fast.

Over time, with repeated attacks and problems of staffing and supply, urban systems succumb to a cumulative impact that renders them increasingly inadequate, reducing people's life chances even further.

States and municipal authorities need to invest in the resilience of urban infrastructure and services during conflict. This means working closely with humanitarian partners and committing to multi-year financing.

Thirdly, local governments need support to serve people affected by chronic urban violence.

Much urban violence is not armed conflict but chronic violence that can result in similar humanitarian consequences.

Urban violence stops health workers and patients going to health facilities. It stops children and teachers going to school.

The New Urban Agenda should support local authorities and communities to increase people's safer access to essential services by monitoring the invisible costs of violence and changing behavior.

Thank you for letting the ICRC speak to you today.

Please give the millions of people suffering from conflict and violence their rightful place in the New Urban Agenda.

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 26 July 2016, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

By: Adrian Edwards

Fighting in South Sudan that broke out on 8 July between rival factions loyal to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar has to date forced 37,491 people to flee the country to Uganda. To put this in context: In the past three weeks there have been more refugee arrivals in Uganda than in the entire first six months of 2016 (33,838).

Yesterday (25 July) an estimated 2,442 refugees were received in Uganda from South Sudan. 1,213 crossed at the Elugu Border Point in Amuru, 247 in Moyo, 57 in Lamwo, and 370 in Oraba. Another 555 were received in Kiryandongo Settlement. The majority of arrivals – more than 90 per cent are women and children. People are coming from South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region, as well as Juba and other areas of the country.

Inside South Sudan the intensity of the violence has subsided since early July, but the security situation remains volatile. The new arrivals in Uganda are reporting ongoing fighting as well as looting by armed militias, burning down of homes, and murders of civilians. Some of the women and children told us they were separated from their husbands or fathers by armed groups, who are reportedly forcibly recruiting men into their ranks and preventing them from crossing the border.

The situation is extremely worrying. Daily arrivals were averaging around 1,500 ten days ago but have risen to over 4,000 in the past week. Further surges in arrivals are a real possibility.

The influx is putting serious strain on the capacity of collection points, and transit and reception centres, which are too small for the growing number of arrivals. During the course of the weekend, humanitarian organisations worked to decongest the collection points, as well as installing temporary shelters to increase capacities. UNHCR has deployed additional staff, trucks and buses to assist.

At its peak, more than 11,000 refugees were staying in Elegu, northern Uganda, in a compound equipped to shelter only 1,000 people. Over the course of the weekend, the centre was significantly decongested, with just 300 people sleeping there last night. Many of the refugees have been moved to the Nyumanzi Transit Centre, where they are receiving hot meals, water, shelter and other life-saving assistance, while others have been taken to expanded reception centres in Pagirinya.

The management and expansion of reception facilities as well as the opening of a new settlement area remain key priorities. A new settlement area has been identified in Yumbe district that looks set to have the capacity to potentially host up to 100,000 people. Temporary communal shelters are also being constructed to accommodate the continuing arrivals.

The humanitarian response to the influx of South Sudanese refugees is sorely lacking due to severe underfunding. The inter-agency appeal is only funded at 17 per cent, which is constraining UNHCR and its partners to provide emergency and life-saving activities only and causing limitations to the full breadth of humanitarian assistance that can be offered.

South Sudan’s conflict, which erupted in December 2013, has produced one of the world’s worst displacement situations with immense suffering. Inside South Sudan, some 1.69 million people are displaced internally, while outside the country there are now 831,582 South Sudanese refugees, mainly in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda.

For more information on this topic, please contact:

In Nairobi, Teresa Ongaro, ongaro@unhcr.org, +254 735 337 608
In Kampala, Charles Yaxley, yaxley@unhcr.org , +256 (0) 776 720 045
In Juba, Eujin Byun, bjun@unhcr.org, +254 701 751 034
In Geneva, Nora Sturm sturmn@unhcr.org, +41 79 200 76 18

The latest wave of violence in South Sudan has forced more than 36,000 people to cross into Uganda and more people are expected over the next couple of days. As one of the leading agencies receiving and assisting the new arrivals the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) are strives to stretch limited resources and provide timely and life-saving assistance.

DRC has had to step up its emergency response in Adjumani, Koboko and Arua districts in Uganda where thousands of refugees have been received since the fighting broke out in South Sudan in early July. Over the last few days renewed fighting has resulted in an increase of new arrivals entering Uganda via the border crossing points at Elegu, Moyo, Kuluba, Lamwo and Yumbe while others have gone directly to Kiryandongo refugee settlement in the mid-west part of the country.

“This new wave of displacement has definitely put a further strain on the already modest resources for refugee operations here and our ability to provide timely and life-saving assistance is currently stretched to the limit. If additional logistical and funds support do not come within the coming days, then the situation will be catastrophic because already we are at full capacity in terms of accommodating new arrivals in most of the transit and reception centres,” says Lilu Thapa, DRC Country Director in Uganda.

At the moment, DRC’s response to the new arrivals include providing assistance to close to 20,000 refugees who have been received at the Nyumanzi transit centre in Adjumani district. DRC is providing hot meals, building temporary shelters, providing WASH services including clean water supply, latrines and hygiene sanitation services as well as protection assistance.

In addition, DRC is also managing the Kuluba collection point in Koboko district – at the border crossing with South Sudan - as well as the Ocea reception centre in Rhino camp in Arua district. DRC is providing hot meals for all the new arrivals, providing accommodation through construction of temporary shelters, water supply, construction of latrines and bath shelters, provision of protection assistance as well as core relief items.

DRC has so far been able to construct five temporary shelters within the Ocea reception centre and to supply water at more than 80 water tap points in both Kuluba and Ocea centres. The new arrivals are currently being accommodated at the transit and reception centres before they are relocated elsewhere in various refugee settlements. More than 7,470 South Sudanese have since been relocated to Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani and others are awaiting relocation at Nyumanzi and Ocea reception centres.

“Most of the transit centres such as Nyumanzi have had to accommodate double their normal capacity. At the moment the Nyumanzi transit centre is hosting 20,000 new arrivals compared to an original capacity of 2,000 persons.

“There is urgent need to decongest the transit centres such as Nyumanzi by establishing new settlements where the new arrivals can be relocated to. This will ensure that the transit centre is not overcrowded and that we can be able to easily provide adequate life-saving assistance to the new arrivals,” said Lilu.

Additional support required in most of the transit and reception centres include: construction of additional hygiene facilities, water tanks and water trucking to villages where the new arrivals are now being relocated, provision of security lights, additional personnel to assist with the preparation of hot meals and additional kitchen consumables for hot meal preparation DRC while working closely with UNHCR Uganda and officials from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) is currently doing its best to ensure that new arrivals in the transit centres are both safe and accommodated in dignity. In this regard, DRC is embarking on conducting regular best interest assessments to identify critical needs and sensitizing persons of concern on matters of protection, hygiene and sanitation.

Contacts:
Villads Zahle
Communication Advisor/Press & Communication
Danish Refugee Council
Borgergade 10, 3rd
DK - 1300 Copenhagen K
Phone: (+45) 33735180
Mob: (+45) 60374431
Skype: villads.zahle
Twitter: @VilladsZahle

Juba, 25 July 2016 - In a move to prevent a cholera outbreak from spreading, the Ministry of Health of South Sudan with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and health partners are ramping up disease surveillance and treatment efforts. Across the country, 271 cholera cases have been reported, including 14 deaths since 12 July 2016.

“Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that causes massive loss of body fluids and can be deadly within hours if not adequately treated. WHO is taking all the necessary control measures to support the Ministry of Health to respond to the situation urgently, and put an end to this outbreak,” says Dr Abdulmumini Usman, WHO Representative to South Sudan.

“This work is vital because the conditions are favourable for transmitting the disease. These include increased population displacement, overcrowding, poor hygiene and sanitation. WHO is working with the Ministry of Health and other partners on ground to contain and prevent further spread of the disease,” added Dr Abdulmumini.

WHO has reinforced its cholera outbreak response capability to prevent the spread of the disease. A National Cholera Taskforce (comprising the Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF, MSF and other partners) has been activated and is providing oversight and coordination for the response to the cholera outbreak.

With more than 270 cholera cases, providing swift treatment is essential. WHO, with support from partners, has established a cholera treatment centre capable of treating 100 patients at Juba Teaching Hospital. To improve access to timely rehydration, eight oral rehydration points have been established by Health Link South Sudan with support from UNICEF. Priority locations for oral rehydration points in Juba include Gurei, Munuki, Kator, Lologo, Mahad, Nyakuron and Gumbo. Additional points are being set-up in El Sabah, Giada and Gorom.

WHO has strengthened disease surveillance and comprehensive disease investigation, including following up on people who may have come into contact with the disease.

As a proactive preventive measure, WHO along with the Ministry of Health and partners are planning to conduct an oral cholera vaccination campaign to reach over 14 000 people. The campaign is set to start on 26 July 2016 at various sites including communities in Gorom and Giada and special populations such as internally displaced people in Tomping.

Additionally, WHO and partners are supporting social mobilization and community engagement activities. The media is currently airing cholera prevention messages and a toll-free phone line to report cholera cases has been activated.

WHO and partners have delivered supplies including tents and cholera kits that provide treatment for 400 people. To improve case detection and treatment of cholera, WHO has also distributed cholera preparedness and response guidelines.

WHO is appealing to all partners to strengthen preventive and control measures before the disease spreads to other camps and host communities. This outbreak further exacerbates an already weak health system which is also battling malnutrition, measles and malaria.

“The risk of further spread of diseases is a major concern. With the coming rains, it is realistic to expect an increase in malaria and water-borne diseases. Consequently, we can expect medical needs to increase in an environment where WHO and partners are already working hard to keep up with existing health needs,” says Dr Abdulmumini.

With 4.4 million people in need of health assistance, funding is urgently needed to respond to the rising needs. The South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan launched earlier this year requests US$ 110 million, of which US$ 31.3 million has been received (71% funding gap). Of this amount, WHO requires US$ 17.5 million for 2016, of which only US$ 4.3 million has been received. More funding will be required to respond to the additional needs arising from this recent crisis.

“We have this opportunity to save, improve and protect the health of millions of people before it gets worse,” says Dr Abdulmumini. “WHO is committed to containing the cholera outbreak in South Sudan but, without urgent funding, we cannot implement most of the planned interventions. We need donors and partners to urgently fund our operations.”

For media inquiries, please contact: Ms Jemila M. Ebrahim
Communication Officer
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Email: ebrahimj@who.int

Best regards, WHO Media Team

Message from the Director

Last year was another significant year for internal displacement caused by armed conflict, generalised violence and weather-related disasters across the world. New displacement by conflict and disaster was recorded in every region of the world, with staggeringly high numbers of people displaced in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, India, China and the Philippines. As the result of new and protracted displacement caused by long-running internal conflicts, the total number of conflict IDPs reached 38 million in 2014. Hundreds of thousands more lived in protracted displace ment following disasters for periods ranging between one and 26 years.

2015 marked a new turning point for IDMC. We expanded the scope of our monitoring beyond conflicts and disasters to cover the impacts of organised criminal violence and development projects such as dam construction, resource extraction, urban renewal and mega sporting events. With this expansion we aim to provide a more comprehensive picture of internal displacement, of the overlaps between different drivers and of the many data and knowledge gaps that remain. Identifying and quantifying the scale of these phenomena will no doubt reveal an ever growing and complex picture of displacement.

Raising awareness of the nature and dynamics of internal displacement in all its forms is key to helping poli cy-makers and practitioners target limited resources to where they are most needed. It is particularly important to provide insights into displacement as a multi-dimensional and cross-cutting issue of direct relevance to other global challenges, from humanitarian action and peace building, to disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and sustainable development.

IDMC’s policy work continues to contribute to a wider acknowledgement of displacement as a cross-cutting chal lenge, and promotes the recognition that internal displace ment is rarely the outcome of a single factor or event, but comes about from multiple and overlapping factors that need to be understood for appropriate and durable solutions to be found.

Working with key partners such as the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), we were proud to influence the key displacement-related decisions that came out of 2015’s landmark policy events. These included the UN Sustainable Development Summit, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the Nansen Initiative’s global consultations on the protection of people displaced across borders, and the COP21 climate change summit.

These policy frameworks provide important entry points for addressing internal displacement in a more comprehen sive and joined-up way. For this to happen, a solid global baseline and frequently updated quantitative and qualita tive data are needed to inform and monitor these processes each step of the way. This includes building a better knowl edge base on IDPs’ profiles, locations and movements, the conditions in which they live, and the vulnerabilities they may have as a result of their displacement.

Several significant steps were taken in this direction in 2015, including a plan for the development of an online database which will facilitate IDMC’s users’ access to displacement data and analysis and will provide the most up-to-date country-level estimates on internal displace ment, disaggregated by location and profile.

We are happy to present our Annual Report 2015 which looks back to our achievements and successes but also considers some of the strategic tasks ahead for IDMC. We would like to thank you all for the support you have given us over the years, and for your encouragement at this crucial time for displacement, migration and refugee issues globally.

Alexandra Bilak,
Director of IDMC

Weekly picks

AFGHANISTAN

On 23 July in Kabul, two explosions during a peaceful protest of Shiite Hazaras killed 80 and injured another 231 civilians --the deadliest attack in the capital since 2001. IS claimed responsibility for the attack, which risks to increase tensions between the Shias and the Sunnis.

UGANDA

Following the recent escalation of conflict in South Sudan, more than 2,000 refugees have been arriving in northern Uganda daily. Over 14,887 refugees have crossed from South Sudan since 7 July, almost all women and children. The Ugandan armed forces have tightened security along the borders.

SYRIA

Government airstrikes hit four hospitals and a blood bank in Aleppo on 24 July. They are reportedly all out of service. This follows previous attacks on hospitals in eastern Aleppo on 14 and 16 July. Medical supplies in besieged eastern Aleppo are running out, and fuel is urgently needed to keep hospital generators running.

Updated: 26/07/2016. Next update: 03/08/2016.

Highlights

• In 2016, WFP Sudan plans to assist 4.6 million affected people, of which 3.9 million reside in Darfur. Thus far, WFP has reached 2.4 million people or 52 percent of the people in need.

• In June, WFP assisted 1.9 million people with general food assistance and 250,000 children under five and pregnant and nursing women with nutrition assistance.

• WFP is prioritizing its assistance to meet the emergency needs of South Sudanese refugees, internal displaced persons (IDPs) from the Jebel Marra area and the El Niño affected, however, without sufficient funding WFP will be unable to continue providing this much needed assistance.

• WFP Sudan urgently needs USD 34.8 million to provide uninterrupted assistance in the next six months (JulyDecember).

WFP Assistance

In July 2015, WFP Sudan launched a two-year Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200808, which initially targeted 5.2 million people. Following longstanding efforts to bring improved food security to vulnerable communities in Sudan facing complex emergencies, the PRRO supports a gradual shift from relief operations to recovery and resilience activities. In June 2016, WFP incorporated the increased food and nutrition needs as a result of the South Sudanese refugees, El Niño, and Jebel Marra conflict-related displacements crises through a budget revision to the existing PRRO, bringing the total number of people targeted to receive food assistance to 6.1 million.

The PRRO maintains a robust relief component (60 percent) for new and protracted displaced populations facing food insecurity and malnutrition complemented by an early recovery portfolio (40 percent). For new and longstanding IDPs, WFP provides food assistance and cash based transfers (CBTs), food assistance for assets (FFA) or food assistance for training (FFT) activities, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) treatment and prevention programmes for malnourished children and pregnant and nursing women, and school feeding for school-age children in food insecure areas.

Refugees are provided with general food assistance and nutrition assistance. Vulnerable residents receive assistance in the form of seasonal support, nutrition assistance, food and CBTs through their participation in FFA and FFT activities and school feeding assistance which includes take-home entitlements to support girls' continued education. WFP mainstreams gender into existing activities by targeting a higher proportion of women as food recipients and integrating women into community food management and voucher committees.

Additional activities implemented through trust funds include the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE)
Initiative in Darfur, the Joint Resilience Programme with FAO and UNICEF in Kassala and the micronutrient powder home fortification and stunting reduction pilot in Red Sea state and North Darfur.

WFP continues its efforts to better target food assistance to IDPs based on vulnerability rather than IDP status, implementing a vulnerability analysis exercise covering 50 camps with 1.4 million IDPs. The exercise involves collecting data to assess the needs of each individual household and categorizes IDPs into four vulnerability groups (high, medium, low and none). WFP has begun implementing changes based on this analysis in 29 camps, covering 745,000 IDPs. This has led to phasing 191,600 IDPs out of general assistance and shifting 106,700 IDPs to seasonal support and livelihood activities.

In line with WFP Strategic Objectives 1 and 2,
Sustainable Development Goal 2 and the Zero Hunger Challenge, the PRRO supports implementation of the government’s humanitarian and development policies and priorities and the Humanitarian Response Plan.

The PRRO is complemented by the WFP-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which provides air transport to more than 100 humanitarian organisations flying to 40 destinations across Sudan.

In coordination with the Inter-Cluster Working Group, the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster continues to advocate for non-creation of new camp-like settings in Juba. Humanitarian interventions should be aimed at providing temporary emergency assistance that will not serve as a pull factor for IDPs to remain in the sites. OCHA reports that 14,084 people remain displaced by the insecurity in Juba. Of these, 10,838 people are sheltering in the UN Tong Ping and UN House bases. An estimated 3,246 IDPs are staying in Don Bosco collective center in Gumbo.

UNMISS TONGPING

CCCM

Camp Management

• Estimated population figure remains at 4,000.
• Camp management continues to support the movement of IDPs from one location in the site to another to facilitate construction of communal shelters.

Relocation

• The dry run of the relocation route involving all participants of the relocation convoy participants (IOM busses with UNMISS and SPLA escort) will take place today 26 July.
• The relocation is expected to begin on Wednesday 27 July, the planned relocation is contingent on feedback from UN House on preparedness for reception of IDPs.
• 210 IDPs have voluntarily registered for relocation, indicating that they have family or plots at UN House. This group will be prioritized for relocation.
• It is planned for two rotations of relocation convoy to take place, at 0800 hours and 1300 hours.

WASH

• IOM delivered 54,000 liters of safe drinking water at a rate of 13.5L per person per day.
• Four water points and 30 taps with one tap for 133 people.
• 76 latrines are functional, with 52 person per latrine. 14 hand washing facilities are installed and functional.
• The total sludge de-sludged from the UNMISS latrines is 12 cubic meters.
• 6 cubic meters of de-sludged from UNMISS latrines by UNMISS truck.
• Construction of 10 bathing shelters is ongoing.
• 57 health hygiene promoters (HHP) are on the ground working, with one HHP for every 70 people.
• 50 latrine cleaners (20) and garbage collectors (20) are on the ground and working.
• 30 garbage collection bins have been prepositioned at different sites in the camp.

Health

• IOM conducted 183 health consultations at its temporary clinic
• 3 new cases of cholera were reported and immediately referred to the Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) (Juba Teaching Hospital).
• There will be a phased approach to the Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaign (1) OCV on exit for IDPs relocating to UN House and (2) Mass campaign in the Tong Ping site on 27th and 28th July.
• 172 households (1,402 individuals) were reached with health hygiene promotion messaging.

S&NFI

• Four new shelters have been completed.
• 17 (15 full size shelters for 50 individuals and 2 half size for 25 individuals) completed shelters on site, with the capacity to house 800 individuals.
• Site development continues with marram spreading and compacting.
• Tents for transit site have been procured and will be installed today 26 July.

• 64 cases reported foem Gorom area of Rejaf are not shown on the map

• No location data available for 3 cases

Highlights

• The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) results highlights a deteriorating food security situation. By July, 4.8 million people are expected to face emergency and crisis levels of food insecurity.

• WFP provided food assistance to two million people in May – the highest number of people assisted since the conflict broke out in December 2013.

• WFP provided emergency food assistance to families displaced by the recent fighting in Wau.

• Scale up of general food distributions continues to support households through the lean season.

Highlights

• WFP provided critical assistance as the Government of Uganda opened up a new village complex, to resettle South Sudanese refugees within the Adjumani settlement in northern Uganda.

• WFP has so far assisted 3,000 refugees and Ugandans in the host communities with training and storage tools for reduced post-harvest food loss.

• WFP is providing a protection ration to families with children, pregnant women and new mothers affected by moderate acute malnutrition in the Karamoja region.

SC/12460

On 15 July 2016, members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan were briefed by the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan in connection with the Panel’s work programme.

With the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2290 (2016) on 31 May 2016, the mandate of the Panel of Experts was extended until 1 July 2017.

During the consultations on 15 July, members of the Committee and the Panel also discussed recent events in South Sudan in the context of the Panel’s plans to submit a report to the Security Council, within 120 days, providing analysis of the current security threats facing the Transitional Government of National Unity, and its needs to maintain law and order in South Sudan, as well as further analysis on the role of transfers of arms and related materiel coming into South Sudan since the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity with respect to implementation of the August 2015 Peace Agreement, and threats to the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) and other United Nations and international humanitarian personnel.

For information media. Not an official record.

KEY FIGURES

2,442
Number of new arrivals on Monday 25th July (as per field reports)

37,890
Number of new arrivals since 7th July 2016 (as per field reports)

33,838\*
Number of new arrivals registered since 1st January in Uganda (RIMS) (as of end of June)

229,176\*
Total number of South Sudanese refugees registered in Uganda (RIMS) (as of end of June)

*Figures (not updated daily) according to Uganda Government Refugee Information Management System (RIMS)

PRIORITIES

• Rapid opening of the newly identified settlement area in Yumbe

HIGHLIGHTS

• The number of South Sudanese refugees fleeing to Uganda decreased slightly yesterday, with 2,442 people crossing the border.

• 1,213 refugees crossed in to Uganda using the Elegu border point (Adjumani axis), 247 in Moyo, 57 in Lamwo and 370 in Oraba (Arua axis). 555 refugees were received at Kiryandongo Reception Centre. The number of daily new arrivals over the last week is now more than 4,000, an increase compared to around 1,500 ten days ago.

• Following an inter-agency assessment mission, it has been decided to open a new settlement area in Yumbe district. The new settlement could potentially host up to 100,000 refugees and already has a number of facilities in place on account of it having previously been used to host refugees and internally displaced people in the past.

• Around half of new arrivals are fleeing from Eastern Equatoria, with the remainder arriving from Juba and other areas in South Sudan. New arrivals report that they fled South Sudan as they fear that violence could erupt at any minute. This has been compounded by the news that the SPLA-IO has reportedly replaced Riek Machar as their leader with Taban Deng Gai.

• According to arriving refugees, there is a strong security presence along the Juba to Nimule road. New arrivals in Arua report that there are a number of restrictions on roads leading out of the country, with one claiming he passed 27 road blocks before reaching Uganda. Others are claiming that armed gunmen manning the road blocks are demanding money from people if they wish to pass.

• More than 30,000 people are staying in collection points, transit centres and reception centres. There is an urgent need to open up new settlement areas in order to relocate these people and to allow the centres to be decongested so that they have room for new arrivals.

• 300 people spent the night at Elegu collection point, less than its 1,000-person capacity and far less than its weekend peak when more than 11,000 people spent the night there. Conversely, Kuluba collection point is currently hosting 1,084 refugees, and is over its 300-person capacity.

• At a briefing to press in Geneva, UNHCR highlighted the severe underfunding of the humanitarian response to South Sudanese refugees. UNHCR also noted its concern that the number of new arrivals coming to Uganda could be set to increase in the days ahead. More information is available at: http://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2016/7/579724704/south-sudan-fighting-sees-refugees-fleeing-uganda-first-6-months-2016.html

The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) is a network of depots around the world (Ghana, Italy, UAE, Malaysia, Panama, Spain) that stores and manages relief items on behalf of the humanitarian community. Strategic stocks of emergency relief goods are available at any given time and, at the onset of an emergency, UNHRD is ready to dispatch immediately.

Currently, UNHRD provides logistics services and comprehensive supply chain solutions to more than 75 Partners including the United Nations, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Partners can coordinate their efforts, prioritize dispatches to emergencies, lend and borrow stock among themselves, and benefit from immediate access to goods through a flexible sourcing structure.

To date, UNHRD has delivered a combined 4155 MT of relief items valued at over 25 million USD in support of the ongoing crises in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria and the surrounding regions.

Bern, 27.07.2016 - In South Sudan thousands of people have fled the recent hostilities between rival political factions. These new outbreaks of violence have compounded the already considerable humanitarian needs in the country. Switzerland has decided to provide an additional CHF 2 million to alleviate the suffering of the local population.

Switzerland is concerned about the fate of the civilian population of South Sudan following the outbreak of hostilities at the beginning of July 2016 in the capital Juba and other parts of the country. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will release CHF 2 million to help the victims of this new wave of violence.

Half of this amount will be channelled to the South Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund, to which Switzerland has been contributing since 2014. The funds will help finance the operations in the SDC's three priority sectors in this country: food security, water and the protection of civilians. The other million will be allotted to the World Food Programme (WFP) to assist efforts to fight food insecurity, which is affecting over four million people in the country.

This new outbreak of violence is exacerbating the already dramatic humanitarian situation. South Sudan suffers from extreme poverty and a civil war, which has been undermining it since December 2013.

South Sudan, which is the world's youngest state, is one of the priority intervention zones of Swiss Humanitarian Aid, whose budget for this country in 2016 amounted to approximately CHF 18 million before this new contribution.

South Sudan is also a priority country of the FDFA's Human Security Division (HSD), which has been working to implement the peace agreement concluded in August 2015. The HSD is also involved in the reconciliation efforts and in strengthening local government in collaboration with the traditional authorities. The budget for its peace promotion activities totals about CHF 1 million per year.

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