Over 15,000 IDPs receive food aid in Jonglei’s Duk county

January 26, 2016 (BOR) – Over 15,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees in Duk county of South Sudan’s Jonglei state are receiving humanitarian food assistance for the first time this year, authorities said.

The humanitarian aid agency, Catholic Relief Service (CRS) is currently supporting the mixed communities with food aid, its county director has disclosed.

According to Moses Manyang, the food distribution expected to go on for three days had created peaceful co-existence among the diverse ethnic communities in the county.

“Duk is now an exemplary place for peace in South Sudan. Since 2014, Duk had been hosting thousands of IDPs from the Nuer communities, with food support from humanitarian agencies. It is just a continuation of that, for them to receive their food ratio and continue living peacefully”, he said.

Meanwhile, the same operation is expected to take place in Padiet payam of Duk county over the next five days, where over 18,000 displaced people would get food assistance donated by the United States aid arm (USAID).

(ST).