Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: South Sudan
Toby Lanzer is the United Nations’ top humanitarian official in South Sudan. Since conflict broke out in December 2013 he has travelled across the country to meet people struck by violence and coordinate the response to their needs. Here he shares some impressions from these travels.
Scenes that linger.
December 2013. Shots ring out in the capital Juba. On the UN shortwave radio, staff manning the gate at one of the main UN bases say that people are arriving, in their hundreds. We let them in. Within two days, tens of thousands of people are sheltering inside UN bases, as violence spreads around the country.
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